ARKANSAS SISKIN. PINE FINCH. 51J 



olive ; 3 outer tail-feathers white on the middle of the inner web, 

 black at tip. 



This species, first described by Mr. Say, was met with 

 in the month of July, near the base of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, south of the river Platte, and probably exists in 

 Mexico. As usual, it lives in trees and bushes, sings 

 sweetly, and much in the manner of the Yellow-Bird. 

 The specimen was a male : the female, and any other 

 vesture of plumage, are unknown. 



The Arkansa Siskin is 4^ inches long. Crown black ; cheeks 

 dusky olive ; neck, back, and rump olivaceous, mingled with 

 dusky and yellowish ; upper tail-coverts black, varied with olive. 

 Beneath pure yellow. Wings brownish-black, smaller wing-coverts 

 the same, but slightly tinged with blue, and edged with olive ; great- 

 er wing-coverts tipt with white, forming a bar across the wino- ; 3d 

 to the 7th primaries white towards the base, producing a white spot 

 beyond the coverts 5 first 4 primaries nearly equal, 5th shorter; the 

 secondaries broadly margined with white exteriorly towards their 

 tips. Tail blackish, slightly emarginated, edged with dull whitish ; 

 the 3 exterior feathers pure white on the middle of their inner vanes. 

 Bill yellowish, tipt with blackish. Feet flesh-color. Irids dark brown. 



PINE FINCH. 



{Fringilla pinus, Wilson, ii. p. 133. pi. 57. fig. 1. [winter plum- 

 age]. Phil. Museum, No. 6577.) 



Sp. Charact. — Dark flaxen, spotted with blackish ; wings black, 

 with 2 yellowish-w^hite bars ; shafts of the quills yellow ; lateral 

 tail-feathers yellow on the lower half. 



Our acquaintance with this little northern Goldfinch 

 is very unsatisfactory. It visits the Middle States in 

 November, frequents the shady, sheltered borders of 

 creeks and rivulets, and is particularly fond of the seeds 

 of the hemlock tree. Among the woods, where these 

 trees abound, they assemble in flocks, and contentedly 

 pass away the winter. Migrating for no other purpose but 

 subsistence, their visits are necessarily desultory and 



