CITRIL FINCH. 
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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 back 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 oblique 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; pri- 
maries brown, bordered and tipped with grey; tail 
quills equally brown, bordered and tipped with ashy 
white. 
My figure of this bird is from a specimen sent me 
by Mr. Tristram. The egg is from Thienemann. 
The bird has also been figured by Temminck, Atlas; 
Vieillot, Faune Franc., pi. 40; Roux, Ornith. Prov., 
pi. 90, (male;) Naumann, Vogel Deutsch., pi. 124; 
Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 35, f. 3; Gordd, B. of 
E., pi. 198. 
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