SPINUS. 681 



remainder of under parts dirty pale gray, washed with fulvous-brown 

 on sides, flanks, thighs, and tail-coverts; wings and tail brown, most of 

 the wing-feathers edged with dull cinnamon-rufous; lesser coverts dull 

 chestnut; median coverts blackish, tipped with white; greater coverts 

 edged with cinnamon-rufous and tipped with white; the tips of median 

 and greater coverts forming bars; second to fifth primaries with an 

 ocherous-buff band on outer webs near the tip of primary-coverts. A 

 male from Manila measures: Length, 140; wing, 66; tail, 52; culmen 

 from base, 13; tarsus, 17. A female, wing, 68; tail, 54; culmen from 

 base, 14; tarsus, 17. 



Young. Color pattern like that of the adult, but upper parts lighter ; 

 crown and neck dark clay-brown, cinnamon on sides of occiput and sides 

 of neck; back with broad streaks of buff; ear-coverts, chin, and throat 

 slate-gray and the areas not so well defined as in the adult. 



The mountain, or tree, sparrow is an introduced species in the Philip- 

 pine Islands. It is found in considerable numbers about Manila and in 

 towns along the railroads. It is also abundant in the town of Cebu. 



Genus SPINUS Koch, 1816. 



Bill slender and acute, its distal half greatly compressed; culmen 

 straight, without a decided ridge ; wings very long, reaching nearly to the 

 tip of tail which is forked. Colors canary-yellow, black, and white. 



696. SPINUS SPINUS (Linnaeus). 

 SISKIN. 



Fringilla spinus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 181. 

 Chrysomitris spinus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1888), 12, 212; MC- 

 GREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 24. 

 Spinus spinus MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 104. 



Calayan (McGregor). British Islands, Europe, northern Asia, and Siberia; in 

 winter to Japan, southern China, and the Liu Kiu Islands. 



Male. General color lemon-yellow; crown and nape black; back and 

 scapulars yellowish green with dark shaft-lines ; rump yellow ; tail-coverts 

 olive-green; chin and middle of fore throat black; a band from above 

 center of eye to neck lemon-yellow ; ear-coverts washed with olive ; cheeks, 

 sides of neck and of throat, and remaining under parts bright lemon- 

 yellow, becoming white on middle of abdomen ; flanks streaked with black ; 

 feathers of thighs drab-gray tipped with white; under tail-coverts yellow 

 with broad dusky shaft-marks and white tips; wing-feathers blackish 

 brown ; primaries, except the first, narrowly edged with yellow and, except 

 the outer three, witli a spot of yellow on outer web near the tips of the 

 coverts, forming a bar, which is continued on the outer webs of the 

 secondaries, each of the latter has also a large yellow spot near the tip; 



