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FRINGILLA CYANEA. 
of a streaked appearance ; the whole base of the a 
is lead colour ; the wings and tail are of a darker , 
less glossy brown, each feather being edged with li S^ju 
more extended on the secondaries, and especially A 
wing-coverts ; the wings are two inches and a half l 11 '!’, 
not reaching, when folded, beyond the tail-coverts i vj 
first primary is subequal to the fourth, the second 9 , 
third being longest; the three outer, besides the 1% 
are greatly attenuated on the outer weh, half an 
from the point, where it is extremely narrow; the j. 
is two inches in length, and but slightly ematgin** p 
the feet are dusky, the tarsus measuring three-quafw 
of an inch. " , 
The male, after his autumnal moult, exhibits 
much the same dress, except being more or less tiW^ 
with bluish. We shall here observe, that we do 
believe that the individual kept by Wilson in a 
through the winter, in which the gay plumage did f. 
return for more than two months, formed aif exeepji 
to the general law, as he supposed. We have no dok, 
that this circumstance is characteristic of the speck 8 
its wild state. j 
The young strongly resemble the female ; the d* 
colour is, however, much less pure and glossy, W8 
somewhat intermixed with dusky olive, owing to i 
centre of the feathers being of the latter hue. 
quently, during the progress from youth to adolesce ** e . 
and even during the two periodical changes, the pilin' 11 ', 
of this bird is more or less intermixed with drab, K 1 ', 
and white, according to the stage of the mouh'j 
process, some being beautifully and regularly sp ot J, | 
with large masses of those colours symmetrically diq'°'‘„ ' 
In one of these males, hut little advanced in its chai’?^ 
we readily recognize the Embemza ccerulea of auth®^ 
Azuroux of Bufton, &c. ; and in another, which *| )t . 
made farther progress towards the perfect state, K 
shoulders only retaining the ferruginous tinge, W® L 
trace the Emberiza cyanella of Sparmann. 
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