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Teachers' manual of bird-life/Plate 51

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Fringillidae

2481279Teachers' manual of bird-life
American Crossbill & Pine Grosbeak, Plate LI,
Ernest Seton Thompson


Page 147, 148.

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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.