172 



SINGIX(; I'.IKDS ^OSCIXES. 



along streams and in wet places. In the Colorado Valley they feed on seeds 

 of an Artemisia. I did not see them there after April 15tli. 



Chrysomitris piuus, ^\'ILsoN. 



THE PINE FINCH. 



FriiKjilla pinus, Wilson, Amcr. Oni. II. 1810, LIS; pi. xvii. f. 1. — AuDUnON, Orn. Biog. 

 II. 1834, 455; V. 509; pi. XSO. — Unaria pinus, AuDiuox, Birds Aincr. III. KS41, 

 li5 ; pi. 180. — IIiiKR.M.^N'X, I'. K. Rep. X. vi. 49. — Chrymmkris piuus, BoN.MMini:, 

 Consp. 1850, 515. — Baiku, V. K. Rep. IX. Birds, 425. — Cooper and Sucklev, XII. 

 iii. Zuol. of W. T. 197. 



Sp. Char. Tail ik'c])ly forked. Above, brownish-olive. Beiie:itli, whitish, every 

 feather streaked distinctly with dusky. Concealed bases of tail feathers and quills, to- 

 gether with their inner edges, sulphur-yellow Outer edges of quills and tail feathers 





ycllowish-gi-een Two yellowish-white bands on the wing. Length, 5.00; extent, 8.50; 

 wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.20. Iris, bill, and feet brow)i. 



Hah. North Aniei-icn, from Atlantic to Pacific ; chiclly northward ; extending, however, 

 along the Kueky Mountains to the tabie-lands of jMe.vieo. 



A common species in the far nortli, residing throughout the year at the 

 Columbia Eiver and northward, Imt in this State I have not met with 

 them even in the lofty Sierra Nevada in September, though they appear 

 along their whole western slope in winter, as far south as Fort Tejon. 



Tliey are found both among the coniferous trees and those tliat are de- 

 ciduous, feeding uu the seeds of spruces, alilers, willows, ami juniper-berries. 



