Loxia curvirostra minor. Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- tain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster. 56. Loxia curvirostra americana. First plumage: female. Upper surface generally brown, each feather edged and tipped with dull gray. Interscapular region washed with greenish-olive; rump yellowish-white, with a greenish tinge; a few only of the feathers with darker centres. Beneath dull ash, lighter on the ab- domen, washed with greenish across the breast, each feather with a central streak of dark brown. From a specimen in my collection obtained at Upton, Me., June 25, 1873. In general aspect this specimen is much darker than the adult female. It was moulting, and had acquired a few feathers of the autumnal plumage. Bull. N.O.O. 3, July, 1878. p. 117.