Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Monograph of the Weaver-Birds, Ploceidæ, and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches, Fringillidæ, Vol. 1
Young Male. Like the adult, but paler, with a small elongated black shaft-spot on the two longest under tail-coverts.
Female. Similar to male; duller, the yellow on the centre of the belly and breast, more extended; the two black shaft-spots on the under tail-coverts, longer and broader than in the young male bill and legs as in the male.
Obs. The extent of the yellow markings of both sexes, depend upon age.
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