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Adult Hodgson's Rosy Finch in spring and summer have dark brown fore-head, crown and mantle; with broad pale-brownish edges of feathers; dark core-parts formed longitudinal streaks. Nape and neck-flanks are sandy-grey without streaks; rump is plain brownish-grey. Long feather of uppertail is dark-brown with broad white tips; tail and flight feathers are dark-brown with whitish edges of outer webs. Underparts are plain pale-brownish; but sometimes with not clear longitudinal streaks on craw-flanks; axillaries are whitish. Undertail feathers are with pale-brownish centers and with very broad white edges of both webs. Legs and claws are dark-brown; bill is black-brown with some paler base of low mandible. Eyes are red-brownish. Juveniles have heavy expressed buffy-rufous and even rusty-rufous tinge, especially on head, mantle and secondaries. Legs are paler than on adults. Sizes. Males: wing 91 - 103, tail 60 - 70, tarsus 18 - 19.5 mm. Females: wing 90 - 98, tail 58 - 64, tarsus 18 - 19.4 mm.