110 SISKIN. 



green, each feather with a brownish black central mark ; chin, 

 throat, and breast above, greenish white, tinged with yellow, 

 in the middle bluish white, below greyish white, each feather 

 with a longitudinal streak of blackish; back, light greyish 

 green, tinged with blue, each feather with a brownish black 

 central streak. The yellow on the wing feathers is paler than 

 in the male. Tail, yellow, but less extensively, and the black 

 at the end is tinged with brown; under tail coverts, white, 

 with dark shaft streaks. Toes, light brown. 



The young are at first covered with black down. The 

 male, after the first moult, has the black on the head mar- 

 gined with brown, and the colours are less bright than when 

 mature. 



If kept in confinement the Siskin sometimes varies to white 

 or dusky, and Bechstein says that in very old males the whole 

 breast becomes black. 



