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MOTWFATF FTA r CH. 
The wings extend to the width of about ten inches; their 
feathers are marked as in the male, but the dark parts are 
blackish brown. The tail has the two middle feathers grey. 
All the colours in the female are less pure than in the male, 
and clouded with dull brown. 
The young are described as resembling the adult female; 
the black of the head, back, and wings being tinged with 
brown. Individuals have been met with either wholly white, 
or with patches of that colour. 
In the carefully compiled and valuable ‘Account of the 
Birds found in Norfolk,’ by John Henry Gurney, Esq., and 
William Richard Fisher, Esq., there is an account and figure 
of a very beautiful variety of the Mountain Finch, described 
as follows:—With the exception of a brown patch on one 
or two feathers of one side of the tail, this specimen was 
entirely white; the greater part of its plumage being also 
pervaded with an elegant tint of yellow, which particularly 
spread itself on the sides of the head, and on the edges of 
the quill feathers of the wings and tail, as well as on the 
feathers under the wing. The colour of these latter, which 
is usually yellow, was remarkably bright in this specimen, 
and extended over a greater space than usual. 
