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and having the outside webs edged with yellowish green and emarginated 

 as far as the fifth. The tail-feathers are brown, the outside webs edged 

 with jellowish green, and the inside webs have a narrow greyish-white 

 margin. The general colour of the underparts is white, sufl^used all over 

 with yellow, and on the breast and flanks with buft'. The axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and thighs are yellow. Bill dark brown above, slightly 

 paler below ; legs, feet, and claws brown ; irides hazel. In summer 

 the upper parts are greyer; in high latitudes occasionally with all the 

 yellow and green abraded, leaving the general colour earthy brown, the 

 eye-stripe having faded into greyish white. Much of the yellow of the 

 underparts also becomes abraded ; and in high latitudes all, except that on 

 the axillaries and under wing-coverts, disappears, leaving the huffish yellow 

 of the breast and flanks pale grey. The autumn plumage is jrellower than 

 that of spring. Birds of the year are even more yellow tlian adults, the 

 whole of the underparts being unifonn huffish yellow. 





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