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new species, which Ridgway named L. atrata. No additions have 

 been made since that time. The Redpoll (Acanthis linarid), 

 which visits in Colorado in winter, was originally described by 

 Linnaeus from Sweden, and belongs to the circumpolar fauna. 

 The pink or red color of the male, which is very bright in the 

 breeding season, is less evident in winter, but still the front of the 

 crown is crimson. The species of Astragalinus are called gold- 

 finch, though they are not of the same genus as the English bird 

 of that name. They are quite small birds, the males marked 

 with yellow, black and white; something like a canary with black 

 crown and mainly black wings and tail (A. tristis) or with the 

 back olive green (A. psaltria). In the Arkansas Goldfinch {A. 

 psaltria) the crown is black in the male, green like the back in the 

 female. The type of this species, named from the Arkansas River, 

 was collected near what is now Pueblo. The Pine Siskin (Spinus 

 pinus of Wilson) is a small finch of the same build as Astragalinus, 

 but streaked with gray and brown, with yellow on wings and tail. 

 It goes in flocks, which migrate from place to place. The English 

 Sparrow (Passer domesticus), an introduced bird in our country, 

 needs no description. Kleinschmidt, a German ornithologist, un- 

 dertook to separate the race found in the British Islands as P. 

 domesticus hostilis. If this were accepted, it would also be the 

 name of our American bird, which came from England.* The 

 first recorded English Sparrow in Colorado was that seen by Lowe 

 in Pueblo, Feb. 20, 1895. The Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax ni- 

 valis) is a northern, circumpolar bird; it was one of the discoveries 

 of Linnaeus during his famous visit to Lapland. It is a rare 

 winter visitor in Colorado. The Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus) 

 is another Linnean discovery in Lapland; but our representative 

 of it is subspecies alascensis, which breeds in Alaska, and winters 

 in the south.** It is not common in our State. The claw of the 

 hind toe is about as long as the toe itself. There is another species 

 (C. ornatus of J. K. Townsend) which remains with us in winter 

 and summer; it is called the Chestnut-collared Longspur, the male 

 in summer having the hind-neck chestnut-rufous. The outer 

 tail feathers are pure white at the base, which is not true of the 



*See Oberholser, Auk, 1917, p. 329. 



**Bergtold, Auk, 1 922, p. 419, records the occurrence of a few specimens of true C. lappon- 

 icus in Colorado. 



