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are identical, also, as stated above, with the types of Audubon's C. Stanleyi, 

 which were undoubtedly collected at Valparaiso, Chili, by Dr. Townsend. 



4. Chrysomitris pinus, (Wilson.) 



Fringilla pinus, Wils. Am. Orn., ii. p. 133, (1810.) 

 Wils. Am. Orn., ii. pi. 17. Aud. B. of Am., pi. 180. Oct. ed., iii. pi. 180. 



Numerous specimens from various localities in North America, but pre- 

 senting no important differences. This species shows in colors but little 

 similarity or near relationship with any other of this group. It is well known, 

 and a favorite with collectors in the Middle States of this Republic, as one of 

 the specialities of winter shooting, and is best known in its winter plumage. 

 The summer plumage ought to differ materially, judging from the seasonal 

 changes that take place in C. tristis and other species of this group. Speci- 

 mens from Orizaba, Mexico, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 seem to be identical with others from the United States, and I fail to dis- 

 cover in any of them the characters of C. macroptera, Du Bus. 



2. Pyrrhomitris. 



5. Chrysomitris cucullata, (Swainson.) 



Carduelis cucullata, Swains., Zool. 111., i. p. (not paged, 1820.) 

 Fringilla Cubae, Gerv., Mag. Zool., 1835, p. (not paged.) 

 Swains. Zool. 111., i. pi. 7. Mag. Zool., 1835, pi. 44. 



Numerous specimens of both sexes, labelled " Trinidad," and, in one in- 

 stance, " Cayenne;" and also one specimen in a collection made by Mr. Geo. 

 Robbins, in Venezuela. The last, though in nearly mature plumage, is re- 

 markable for having the transverse band on the wing dull yellow, instead of 

 the usual pale red, and is the only instance of that description of variatiou 

 that I have seen in this species. 



3. Melanomitris, 



6. Chrysomitris atrata, (D'Orbigny et Lafresnaye.) 



Carduelis atrata, D'Orb. et Lafres., Mag. Zool., 1837, p. 83. 

 D'Orb., Voy. Am. Mer. Ois., pi. 48, fig. 2. 



One specimen in adult plumage, from Verreaux, and another not mature, 

 from D Orbigny's collection. The former is almost precisely as given in the 

 figure of D'Orbigny, as cited, but his description is different, and more like 

 the present specimen from his collection, having the under parts from the 

 breast mixed with pale yellow feathers. He says in his description in Voy. 

 Amer. Mer. Ois., p. 364 : " sublus lotafiava, gutture, collo, peclore hypochondriis- 

 quefusco striatis." The description in Mag. Zool., as above cited, is different, 

 and applies strictly to the adult bird. 



7. Chrysomitris uropygialis, Sclater. 



Chrysomitris uropygialis, Sclat., Cat. Am. B., p. 125, (1862.) 



Easily distinguished from the preceding by its yellow rump, and by having 

 the entire under parts of the body and under wing coverts yellow. Specimens 

 from Gilliss' Exp. to Chili, now in the National Museum in charge of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, were mistaken by me for the preceding, (C. atratus,) 

 having at that time only the young specimen from D'Orbigny's collection, to 

 which I above allude, and relying on it for my determination of the species. 



8. Chrysomitris Bryantii, nobis. 



Resembling both of the preceding, but smaller, and with the entire upper 

 parts, including the rump, clear lustrous black in the male, and with the 

 head also black. Under parts of body, under wing coverts, and under tail 



1865.] 



