THE CrrRlL FINCH. 67 



Citril Finch (Carduelis c. citrinella) ^ adult. 



Description. — Adult male. Winter. — Fore-head, forepart of 

 crown, round eye, and cheeks golden-green ; rest of crown, ear- 

 coverts, nape, and hind-neck brownish blue-grey ; sides of neck 

 paler blue-grey ; mantle and scapulars green, tinged brownish-grej' 

 and faintly streaked dark brown ; back and rump greenish-yellow ; 

 upper tail-coverts, chin, centre of tliroat, and breast yellowish- 

 green, all slightly tipped blue-grey ; centre of belly and under 

 tail-coverts greenish-yellow ; vent white ; sides and flanks brownish- 

 grey tinged green ; axillaries white fringed yellow ; tail- and 

 wing-feathers and primary-coverts brown-black, tipped and fringed 

 on inner webs whitish and on outer yellowish-green ; greater 

 coverts with distal half yellowish-green, very narrowly tipped 

 grey ; median and lesser coverts showing entirely yellowish-green. 

 This plumage is acquired by complete moult in early autumn. 

 Summer. — No moult. Abrasion makes mantle rather more 

 striated, not so uniform, but otherwise effects little change. 



Adult female. Winter and summer. — Like male but less green 

 on crown, browner nape and sides of neck, browner more streaked 

 mantle, lower-throat brownish-grey, all yellow and green duller 

 and darker. 



Nestling. — (Not examined.) 



Juvenile. — Crown and mantle brown, streaked brown-black ; 

 nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts paler more buff-brown, streaked 

 same ; sides of neck, chin, and throat brownish- or yellowish-grey, 

 streaked dark brown ; breast and flanks pale brown, streaked 

 dark ; belly and under tail-coverts wliitish-buff, tinged yellow ; 

 axillaries white, edged yellow ; tail- and wing-feathers as adult 

 but with fringes of outer webs more buff less green ; innermost 

 secondaries and all wing-coverts fringed and tipped pale buff. 



First vnnter and summer. Male. — Like adult but browner, 

 more streaked on mantle and fringes of outer webs of tail- and 

 wing-feathers and primary-coverts less green, more buff ; one or 

 two of outer greater coverts fringed pale buff, and occasionally 



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