Teachers' manual of bird-life/Spinus tristis

2483566Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Teachers ManualPlate LII, American Goldfinch, (Spinus tristis)Ernest Seton Thompson


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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.