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171. Pine Siskin. 



Length, about 5 inches, tail about 2 inches long. 

 Adults : Above, grayish-brown ; below, whitish, 

 conspicuously streaked with dusky ; tail-feathers 

 and secondary wing-feathers sulphur-yellow at base. 

 Young : Similar to adults, but plumage with a 

 fulvous suffusion. 



172. Sncfwflake. 



Male: Length about 7 inches, tail about 3 

 inches, bill in summer black, and in winter yellow, 

 with tip dusky. Adult females smaller than males. 

 Adult male in summer: Prevailing colour white, 

 with back, scapulars, alula and greater part of 

 longer quills black ; in winter, above, sides of head 

 and chest washed with rusty. Adult female : With 

 upper parts streaked with black, the wings with 

 less white than male. Young : Wings mostly 

 dusky, middle coverts, tips of greater coverts and 

 middle secondaries white, other parts grayish. 



173. Lapland Long spur. 



Male : Length about 6J- inches, tail about 2J 

 inches long. Female smaller. Adult male in sum- 

 mer : Above brownish, streaked with blackish, 

 head and chest black, hind-neck chestnut-rufous ; 

 below, white, sides with black markings ; in winter, 

 plumage duller, and markings obscured by brown- 



