THE CITRLL 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-grey 

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

 upper tail-coverts, chin, centre of throat, 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 whitish-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 winter 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 



