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SISKIN. 
green, each feather with a brownish black central mark; chin, 
throat, and breast above, greenish white, tinged with yellow, 
in the middle bluish white, below greyish white, each feather 
with a longitudinal streak of blackish; back, light greyish 
green, tinged with blue, each feather with a brownish black 
central streak. The yellow on the wing feathers is paler than 
in the male. Tail, yellow, but less extensively, and the black 
at the end is tinged with brown; under tail coverts, white, 
with dark shaft streaks. Toes, light brown. 
The young are at first covered with black down. The 
male, after the first moult, has the black on the head mar¬ 
gined with brown, and the colours are less bright than when 
mature. 
If kept in confinement the Siskin sometimes varies to white 
or dusky, and Bechstein says that in very old males the whole 
breast becomes black. 
