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similar to those of tlie Goldfinch. They are, however, much smaller. 

 The ground-colour greenish blue, with variously-sized dots of reddish 

 grey and blood red, chiefly at the larger end. 



According to M. Crespon^ it will breed with the Serin Finch. 



The male in breeding plumage has the top of the head and bade 

 olive green; nape and sides of throat grey; rump, throat, and all the 

 under parts citron yellow; wings and tail dark brown; the primaries 

 lightly and the secondaries broadly tipped with ashy white ; two oblicjue 

 bars of olive green across the wings. Beak brown; feet reddish; iris 

 clear brown. 



The female has the plumage browner, with less of yellow below, 

 and the wing bars are whitish. 



According to Degland the young before the first moult have the 

 upper parts of a russet grey, with a longitudinal black spot in the 

 centre of each feather; the inferior parts russet white, with a number 

 of brown spots, distinct, but less pronounced on the middle of the 

 abdomen; wings of a blackish grey, with the coverts broadly bordered 

 and tipped with light yellow ochre, forming two transverse bands, 

 one on the middle, the other on the lesser coverts; primaries brown, 

 bordered and tijjped with grey; tail quills equally brown^ bordered 

 and tipped with ashy white. 



My figure of this bird is from a specimen sent me by Canon 

 Tristram. The egg is from my own collection. It was taken in the 

 Canton Uri in Switzerland, and sent me by the late Herr Seidensacher. 



The bird has also been figured by Temrainck, Atlas; Vieillot, Fauna 

 Franc, pi. 40; Eoux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 90, (male;) Naumann, Vogel 

 Deutsch., pi. 124; Bouteille, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 35, f. 8; Gould, B. 

 of E., pi. 198. 



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