BIRDS — FRINGILL11>.\^E — CIIRY.^OMITRIS MAGKLLANICUS. 



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B. AsTRAO.\UNCS, Cabani.s. — Wings black ; the bases of tlie jjriinaries and edgings wliite ; 

 tail wliite, blotched. No black on throat. 



Body entirely yellow above ; lesser wing coverts wliite C. trislis. 



Body olivaceous above ; lesser winy coverts black C. psalliia. 



Body entirely black above; lesser wing coverts black. Tail with white spots. .G mexicanus. 

 Similar to the last ; the tail without white spots C. columbianm. 



C. Wings black, edged with yellow, but none at the base of tlie quills. Tail spot white. 

 Crown, chin, and throat black C.lawrencn. 



No black 071 the head. 



D. Feathers of the head and body all streaked with brown. Bases of the quills and tail 

 feathers yellow C. pinus. 



Comparative vieasurements of species. 



CHRYSOMITRIS MAGELLANICUS, Bonap. 



Black-headed Goldfinch. 



Fringilla magellanica, Vieill. Diet. XIl, 1819, 168.— Aid. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 4G ; pi. 394. 

 Carduelis magellankus, Aid. Syn. 1839, 116.— 1b. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 133 ; pi. 182. 

 Chrijsomitris magellanica, BoxAP. Consp. 1850, 516. — Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 160. 

 Fringilla Uterica, Licht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 2G. 

 " 7 Fringilla campeslris, Spix. Av. Bras. II, , tab. Ixi, f. 3." 



Sp. Ch. — Head all round and extending below over the lower throat, winga, and tail, (except as hereafter described,) black. 

 Lower part of neck, back to the rump, scapulars, and lesser wing coverts, olive green. Under surfaces generally of the body, 

 rump and upper tail coverts, basal half of all the tail feilhers, bases of all the wing feathers, except inner tcrtials and outer web 

 of first primary, with ends of greater coverts and edges of tertials towards the end, yellow, tinged witli greenish beluw. 

 Bastard feathers black. Length, 4.50 ; wing, 2.75 ; tail, 2. 



Hob. — South America. Accidental in the United States, (Kentucky. ) 



