Loxia curvirostra minor. 
Descriptions of First Pin mage of Cer¬ 
tain North Am. Bbs, Wm. Brewster. 
56. Loxia curvirostra americana. 
First plumage: female. Upper surface generally brown, each feather 
edged and tipped with dull gray. Interscapular region washed with 
greenish-olive ; rump yellowish-white, with a greenish tinge ; a few only 
of the feathers with darker centres. Beneath dull ash, lighter on the ab¬ 
domen, washed with greenish across the breast, each feather with a central 
streak of dark brown. From a specimen in my collection obtained at 
Upton, Me., June 25, 1873. In general aspect this specimen is much 
darker than the adult female. It was moulting, and had acquired a few 
feathers of the autumnal plumage. 
Bull. N.O.O, 3, July. 1878. p. //7 
