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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;) JSTaumann, Vogel Deutsch., pi. 124; 

 Boutcil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 35, f. 3; Gould, B. of 

 E., pi. 198. 



