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SCARLET BULI.ITNCH. 
colour; tlie base of all the feathers, as well as a 
narrow streak along the shafts, of a brown red; rump, 
sides of the head, throat, front of neck, and chest, 
of a bright or rose crimson; belly and abdomen of 
a pure white ; back and wing coverts ashy brown, 
tinged with a little red towards the extremity or tips 
of the feathers; quill feathers of both wings and tail 
blaekish brown, bordered with reddish; tail forked, 
beak and feet brown. 
The female has all the upper parts of an ashy 
brown, with large longitudinal spots of a darker brown; 
throat and eheeks regularly spotted with white and 
brown; front of neck and all the under parts of a 
pure white, marked with large longitudinal spots of 
dark brown; middle of belly without spots. It is 
stated that the male adopts in winter the plumage of 
the female . — ( T emminck. ) 
The young males are not red in the first year; they 
have a remote similarity to the female of our Linnets, 
but are distinguished from them by having more of 
a greenish tint pervading the whole plumage, especially 
through the yellowish borders of the wing feathers; 
the head, under part of the neck, back, and shoulders, 
as Avell as the wing coverts, are brown grey, but 
something brighter on the borders of those feathers 
which are of a greenish colour; rump dirty yellow 
green; the dirty white throat has down its sides small 
brownish feathers, which become larger on the upper 
part of the breast, where the ground is also brownish, 
but on the sides is shaded into brownish grey; belly 
and under wing feathers dirty white, without spots ; 
the dark brown wing feathers have on the outer side 
a yellow greenish bordering, which makes them brighter; 
beak and feet are like those of the old male, but of 
