YELLOW-TT A MMER. 
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broadly margined with rich chesnut brown and olive; pri¬ 
maries, dusky black, with a narrow outside edge of yellow; 
the first four nearly equal in length, but the first, or according 
to Macgillivray, the third, rather the longest, the fourth a 
little shorter than the third, and the fifth a quarter of an 
inch shorter than the fourth; secondaries and tertiaries, dusky- 
black, broadly margined with rich chesnut brown and olive; 
greater and lesser under wing coverts, yellow. The tail is 
slightly forked, having the two middle feathers shorter than 
the rest, and dusky black, edged with reddish brown and 
tinged with yellow; the next three feathers on each side are 
dusky black edged with olive, and the two outer ones on 
each side have a broad patch of white in a slanting direction 
on the inner web, the rest of the feather pale brown, and 
the outer margin yellowish white; underneath, the tail is 
grey; upper tail coverts, reddish brown, the feathers, edged 
with yellow. Legs, toes, and claws, light yellowish brown, 
with a tinge of red. 
The female is in general much duller in colour; length, 
not quite seven inches; the head has much less yellow than 
in the male, that colour being nearly confined to the fore 
part of it; the neck in front assumes a tinge of dull green; 
the breast has the yellow much more obscured, and is merely 
streaked on the sides and front with yellowish red; back, on 
the lower part, lighter than in the male. The wings expand 
to the width of ten inches and three quarters; primaries, 
secondaries, and tertiaries, paler than in the male. The white 
spots on the side feathers of the tail are smaller in size than 
in the male bird, and the whole of the tail is of a lighter 
tint. 
The young, when first fledged, are dull yellowish brown, 
streaked with black above, yellowish grey beneath, the breast 
and sides streaked with brown. The head does not assume 
the yellow until after the first autumnal moult, and is patched 
with dusky black, each feather having a streak of that 
colour—the older the bird the more is the yellow diffused, 
and less interrupted with the dusky streaks, as also deeper 
in tint; the sides of the head are yellowish grey. Neck on 
the sides, yellowish grey, on the lower part in front dull 
yellowish brown streaked with dusky; throat, yellow; breast, 
dull yellowish streaked with dusky. The streaks on the back 
are much broader than in the adult, and the red on its 
lower part is less pure, most of the feathers being streaked 
