118 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Chrysomitris lue.dcanus Sumichkast, Mem. BcKst. Soo. X. H., i, 1869, 550 (temp, 

 region, Vera Cruz). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 169 (n. Mexico). — Grayson, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 282 (Tres Marias). 



\_Chri/somitris'] mexlcanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850,576. 



[Chrysomitris'] inericana Sclater and Salvin, Xom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34, part 

 (Mexico). 



[Chrysomitris Pseudomitris mexicanui<'] [A. Var. mexicamis Swains.] Coues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866,81 (crit.; synonymy). 



[Chrysomitris psaltria.'] Var. mexicmm Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, Oct., 1872, 133. 



Chrysomitris psaliria . . . var. ?nexicana Coues, Check List, 1874, no. 1516. 



Chrysomitris psaltria var. mcxicana Ridcjway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 455, 

 part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. X. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 478, part, 

 pi. 22, fig. 13.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. X. H., ii, 1874, 278 (Tres 

 __ Marias). 



[Chrysomitris psaJfrin] c. mexicana Coues, Birds X. W., 1874, 117, part (in 

 synonymy). 



Chrysoi)iitris psaltria vicxicana Goode, Bull. JJ. S. Xat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 313. 



[Chrysomitris mcxicana} var. mexicana Baird, Brewer, and Ridc^way, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 22, fig. 12. 



A.[stragolinus'] mexicanus Cabasis, Mus. Hein., i, July, 1851, 159 (Mexico). 



Astragalinus psaltria mexicanus Coues, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 96; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 217.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., iii, 1880, 177, 

 229, 232; Xom. X. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 1826.— American Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 116. — Cooke, Auk, xvi, 1899, 187 (near 

 Denver, Colorado, 1 spec, summer 1888). — Xelson, Xorth Am. Fauna, no. 

 14, 1899, 52 (Tres Marias). 



A.[strayalinus'] p. [saltriu'] mexicanui^ Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 355, 

 part. 



Spinus psaltria mexicanus Stejneger, Auk, i, Oct., 1884, 362. — American Orni- 

 thologists', Union, Check List., 1886, no. 5306. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. 

 Val., 1888, 183 (Mason, Texas, breeding). — Attwater, Auk, viii, 1892, 337 

 (San Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Jouy, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 

 780 (Soledad, San Luis Potosi; Hacienda el Molina, Jalisco; crit.). — Rich- 

 mond, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 630 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. X. H., x, 1898, 30 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



»S'.[pmit.s] p.sa/i?'<rt me.ricaHf/ Ridgway, Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 399, part. 



S. [pinusl psaltria mexicanus Ridgway*, ]Man. X. Am. Birds, 2d. ed., 1896, 399, part. 



Spinus mexicanus Cory , Cat. "\V. I. Birds, 1892, 147 (Cuba?). 



Fringilla melanoxantha Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. , 1830, 2 (Join-n. fiir 

 Orn., 1863, 56).— Wagler, Isis, 1835, 525. 



[Clirysomitrisl melanoxcmtha hicuTE^STEi's , Xom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 46. 



Fringilla texensis Giraud, Sixteen Sp. Texas Birds, 1841, pi. 5, fig. 1 (Texas; type 

 mU. S. Nat. Mus.). 



ASTRAGALINUS PSALTRIA CROCEUS (Jouy). . 

 CENTRAL AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. 



Similar to A. p- inexicanua bat .smaller and brighter yellow beneath, 

 the adult males with under parts rich lemon yellow instead of canary 

 or citron 3'ellow; similar in color of lower parts to A. j:>. jou///' but 

 larger, and with more black on under wing-coverts and Hanks. 



