Plate CCCC. Fig. 2. Male.
Male with the upper part of the head crimson, the cheeks, sides of the
body, and hind part of the rump pale carmine; a band edging the
forehead, the loral space, and the throat black; upper parts dusky,
streaked with brownish-white, the fore part of the rump nearly white;
feathers of the wings and tail dusky, margined with greyish-white, of
which there are two transverse bands on the wings, formed by the tips
of the secondary coverts and first row of small coverts; lower parts
greyish-white, the sides streaked with dusky. Female somewhat less,
with the black on the forehead and throat tinged with brown, the
crimson patch on the head of less extent, the sides and rump destitute
of red.
_Male_, 5-1/4, 9.
Accidental in New Jersey and New York. More common from Maine
northward. Labrador and Fur Countries. Columbia River.
Grosbec boreal, Fringilla borealis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. v. iii.
p. 264.
Mealy Redpoll, Fringilla borealis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
87.