Teachers' manual of bird-life/Fringillidae

by Ernest Seton Thompson

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REDPOLL.

Length, 5.30 inches. Adult male, crown bright red; back brownish black and grayish; throat black; under parts white, streaked with black; breast pink. Adult female and young, similar, but no pink on breast.

SNOWFLAKE.

Length, 6.90 inches. Upper parts browm and black; wings and tail black and white; under parts white; breast and sides brownish.

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AMERICAN CROSSBILL.

Length, 6.20 inches. Adult male, dull red; back brownish; wings and tail blackish. Adult female and young, greenish; back more or less mottled with brownish; the under parts grayish.

PINE GROSBEAK.

Length, 9.10 inches. Adult male, rose-pink; back brownish; lower belly gray; wings and tail brownish black. Adult female and young, gray; Crown, upper tail-coverts, and breast washed with deep yellow.