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Description and Flumage. 



The length of this bird is between five and six 

 inches. It is of an elegant slender make, the bill 

 and eyes brownish-black or dark hazel, — forehead 

 snow-white, — part of the neck, the checks, and 

 throat, bluish-black, the black on the throat ex- 

 tending a little down on the breast, — head, neck, 

 and part of the back, beautiful ash-grey, — breast 

 and rump, fine reddish-orange, lower parts a whit- 

 ish-yellow inclining to yellowish-grey, — ^tail, red- 

 dish-orange, excepting the two middle feathers, 

 which incline to chesnut-brown, — legs, feet, and 

 claws bluish-black. The female is yellowish- 

 brown, inclining to grey where the male is black, 

 excepting the chin which is whitish ; and where 

 he is red, she is more of a pale but dingy chesnut- 

 brown. The young are spotted all over, some- 

 what like the young of the redbreast. 



