Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Yellow Red-Poll

Ad. - Crown chestnut; back brownish olive-green; rump olive-green; no white wing-bars; secondaries sometimes tinged with chestnut; tail edged with olive-green, the outer feathers with white spots on their inner vanes near the tips; line over the eye and eye-ring yellow; under parts entirely bright yellow; sides of the throat, the breast, and sides streaked with chestnut-rufous. Ad. in winter and Im. - Crown-cap partly concealed by the brownish tips to the feathers and sometimes wanting; line over the eye and eye-ring yellowish; entire under parts uniform yellow, washed with ashy; the sides of the throat, the breast, and sides streaked with chestnutrufous or dusky. L., 5.43; W., 261; T., 210; B. from N., 31.

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