114 SNOW FINCH. 



russet grey; the others white, tipped with a slight black 

 spot bordered with russet; the most external feather 

 on each side entirely white; beak black; feet and iris, 

 brown. 



In autumn the colours of the male are browner 

 above, the black mark on the neck less extended, and 

 the borders of the feathers which form it ashy; beak 

 yellowish, and the feet of a darker brown. 



The female does not differ from the male, except 

 by the ash-coloured head, which runs into russet, and 

 the absence of the black mark on the neck. 



The young before their first moult are above and 

 on the sides of the head and nape of an ashy brown, 

 with the feathers broadly bordered with russet; back 

 and scapularies brown, with the feathers bordered with 

 red; front and sides of the neck ashy white; crop, ab- 

 domen, and under tail coverts of a russet white ; the white 

 feathers of the wings and tail, washed with an ochreous 

 red on their borders; the black feathers of the same 

 parts bordered and tipped with russet; beak saffron 

 yellow; feet russet brown. — (Degland.) 



Figured also by Buffon, Brisson, Wilson, Temminck, 

 etc. By Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 89, (male in winter 

 plumage;) Bouteil, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 35, fig. 1; 

 Naumann, Yogel Deutschlands, pi. 117; Gould, B. of 

 E., pi. 189. 



