THE CROSSBILL 
moult they attain the sexual colours of the adult, with 
this exception, that the young males are intermediate in 
tint between adult males and adult females. In cap- 
tivity the adult male appears to lose his scarlet dress after 
the first moult, and to retain a plumage similar to that of 
the female, as is the case with the Linnet. 
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