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Numerous specimens from Europe. Two specimens, male and female, seem 

 to be smaller, and may be C. pistacina, Bonap., Consp. Av., i. p. 515. They 

 are in adult plumage, and are quite identical with C. spinus in all characters 

 except size, and a slightly greater elongation of the bill. Though evidently 

 the preparations of one collector, these two specimens bear no reliable label 

 indicating locality. 



2. Chrysomitris spinescens, Bonaparte. 



Chrysomitris spinescens, Bonap., Consp. Av., i. p. 517, (1850.) 

 " Fringilla spinescens, Licht., Mus. Berol." Bonap. ut supra. 

 Several specimens, labelled South America. Of all of the birds of this 

 group, this species is most nearly related to C. spinus of Europe, and in the 

 greatest degree resembles it in colors. It is sufficiently described in Conspec- 

 tus Avium, as above cited, and can be distinguished readily from any other 

 species, though resembling in colors C. Yarrellii, (Aud.) The latter is 

 smaller, with the bill larger, and having the yellow parts of the plumage 

 clearer, or less tinged with green. 



3. Chrysomitris barbata, (Molina.) 



Fringillabarbata, Mol., Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chili, (1782), 2d ed.. p. 209, (1810.) 

 Carduelis Stanleyi, Aud., Syn. B. of N. A., p. 118, (1839.) ' 

 Chrysomitris marginalis, Bonap., Consp. Av., i. p. 517, (1850.) 

 Chrysomitris campestris, Gay, Hist. Chili, (not of Spix, Av. Bras.) 

 Crithagra flavospecularis, Hartl. Naum., 1853, p. 213. 

 Aud., B. of Am., oct. ed., iii. pi. 185. Gilliss' Astronom. Exp. Chili, ii. pi. 17. 



Specimens from Chili in the Academy Museum and in the National Muse- 

 um ; and, through the kindness of Professor Baird, I have also before me the 

 original specimen of C. Stanleyi, Audubon, described and figured by that 

 author as above. The last is either a young male or female, and has the 

 general appearance of specimens collected and prepared by the late Dr. Town- 

 send, several of which Audubon erroneously described as from California. A 

 specimen of the same species, in much more mature plumage, is in the 

 Academy Museum, from Dr. Townsend's collection, and is labelled in his 

 handwriting, " Valpo. Chili, $, J. K. Townsend." The specimens from Chili 

 in the Academy, and those of Townsend and Audubon, are quite identical, 

 and entitled to all the names above specified. 



The colors of this species are not fairly represented in Audubon's plate, 

 above referred to, though sufficiently accurate for the recognition of the fe- 

 male, or of the male in imperfect plumage. The plate in Gilliss' Rept. is 

 better, though the transverse band on the wing is unusually pale, and is 

 generally yellow. The description by me in the same volume, (as cited 

 above, p. 181,) is correct. Though having the black cap and black throat 

 and general colors of the typical C. spinus, the bill in the present bird is much 

 thicker, and the general organization more robust. The affinities of this 

 species are, however, clearly in this group, but it is not so nearly related to 

 Carduelis spinoides, Vigors, of India, as to be properly included in the same 

 genus, which Dr. Cabanis considers probable (Mus. Ilein., i. p. 161). That 

 species, C. spinoides, is quite properly separated from Chrysomitris by that ex- 

 cellent and distinguished ornithologist, and is the type of his genus Ilypacan- 

 this, though in my opinion not fully entitled to generic distinction. Its 

 relations are, I think, to the group Chlorospiza, Bonaparte, and especially to 

 the species C. kawariba, C. sinica, and perhaps others. 



Specimens of this species, from the collection made in Chili by Gilliss' 

 Expedition, have the transverse band on the wing nearly white, as represented 

 in the plate cited above. In all other respects they are identical with others 

 in a collection made in Peru and Chili, and presented by the Hon. John Ran- 

 dolph Clay, late Minister of the United States to the former country. They 



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