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Chrysomitris 2'>saUria var. mexicana Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 4o5, 

 part. — Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 478, part. 



Sjnnus psaltria mexicanus American Orxithologists' Uxiox, Clieck List, 1886, 

 no. 530 h, part. 



S.\j)mus] pf^altrla mexicana B^iDGSv^ AY, Man. X. Am. Birds, 1887, 399, part. 



Spinus psnltna croceus J ovr, Proc. L^. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, no. 975, Apr. 18, 1894, 

 780 (Panama; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



A.^stragalinus] m.lexicanv.s'] croceus Hiugvc ay, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 320. 



ASTRAGALINUS PSALTRIA JOUYI Ridgway. 

 YUCATAN GOLDriNCH. 



Similar to A. p. croceus^ but smaller; adult male vrith under win^- 

 coverts mostl}' white or light yellow, and flanks with verj" little, if any, 

 admixture of black, 



J/rtZ^.— Length (skins), S9.41-96.52 (93.98); wing, 53.09-58.42 (5T.15); 

 tail, 33.53-37.85 (35.31); exposed culmen, 8.64-9.91 (8.89); depth of 

 bill at base, 7.11; tarsus, 11.43-12.45 (12.19); middle toe, 9.14-10.16 

 (9.65).^ (Females and young not seen.) 



Yucatan. 



Chrysomitris mexicana (not Carduclis mexicana Swainson) Boucard, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1883, 445 (Yucatan). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, i, 1886, 431, part (Yucatan).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 



206> part (n. Yucatan; Mugeres I., Yucatan). 

 Spinus, species J o\JY, Proc. LT. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 781 (Yucatan). 

 Astragalinus mexicanus jouyi Ridgway, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 320 (Temax, Yucatan; 



U.S. Nat. Mus.). 



ASTRAGALINUS PSALTRIA COLUMBIANUS (Lafresnaye). 

 COLOMBIAN GOLDFINCH. 



Similar to A. j). croceus, but without any white on inner webs of 

 exterior rectrices. 



Jl/a?6^.— Length (skins), 96.52-105.41 (100.33); wing, 59.69-65.02 

 (63.25); tail 36.83-39.88 (38.35); exposed culmen, 9.14-9.91 (9.65); 

 depth of bill at base, 7.37-7.62 (7.62); tarsus, 11.68-12.95 (12.45); mid- 

 dle toe, 9.14-9.91 (9.65).^ (Females and young not seen.) 



Costa Rica to Venezuela (Caracas, Merida, etc.), western Ecuador 

 dor (Niebli) and central Peru (Vina, etc.). 



The oyerlapping of the ranges of t^'pical A. p. cohimbicmus and^l.^). 

 croceus being quite extensiye (Costa Rica to Colombia), intermediates 

 are quite numerous. Such specimens haye much less white on the 

 rectrices than A. j). croceus (sometimes merely a trace), while in some 

 it is asymmetrically deyeloped, one side of the tail being as in typical 

 A. jj. croceus, the other side as in A. j)- cohanhiamis. 



^ Ten specimens. - Eight specimens. 



