MOUNTAIN LINNET. 



lower part of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, dull 

 brownish white ; legs, toes, and claws, very dark brown. 



The red colour on the rump is a sexual as well as a sea- 

 sonal assumption, peculiar to the male only in summer. 

 The whole length of the bird is five inches and one quarter ; 

 but the body being slender, and the tail-feathers lengthy, 

 this bird has a more elongated appearance than the Common 

 Linnet, or the Mealy Redpole. From the carpal joint to 

 the end of the wing, three inches ; the first and third quill- 

 feathers equal in length ; the second longer than either, 

 and the longest in the wing ; the fourth feather one- eighth 

 of an inch shorter than the third. 



The female is without the red colour on the rump, and is 

 also lighter in colour on the back ; her beak, less decidedly 

 yellow at the base, is dusky brown at the tip. 



Young birds, like the females, are lighter in colour gene- 

 rally, and are thus distinguished from old males. 



