Teachers' manual of bird-life/Plate 52

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Spinus tristis

2483565Teachers' manual of bird-life
American Goldfinch, Plate LII,
Ernest Seton Thompson


Page 148.

American Goldfinch.

Length, 5.10 inches. Adult male in summer crown black; rest of body yellow; wings and tail black and white. Adult female and males in winter, upper parts grayish brown; crown yellowish; under parts soiled whitish; throat yellow.