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U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



In winter the yellow is replaced by yellowish brown ; the black of the crown wanting ; that 

 of wings and tail browner. The throat is generally yellowish ; the under parts ashy brown, 

 jiassing behind into white. 



In No. 8339 the white on the inner edge of the tail feathers^ instead of passing obliquely in a 

 straight outline to the inner edge of the feather, constitutes a quadrate blotch in the terminal 

 fourth. There is less white on the wing coverts. 



List of specimens. 



Catal. 

 No 



1349 

 1G44 

 15-21 

 1637 

 2205 



119 

 1318 

 7041 

 6390 

 6391 

 SJ39 

 S8T6 

 4634 

 4K!5 

 5391 

 4659 

 53U2 

 8209 

 4470 

 6392 

 6393 

 6394 

 6395 



Sex. 



s 



Locality. 



Carlisle, Pelin 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



do 



St. Louis 



Ft. Leavenworth, K. T. 



do 



Independence, Mo.. 



Fort Riley, K. T 



Running Water, Neb 



do 



Fort Lookout, Neb. 



Fort Pierre, Neb 



Blaekfoot country, Neb 



Fort Laramie 



Shcilwater Bay, K. T. 



San Francisco 



do 



Saeramenio, Cal 



do 



Fort Tejon, Cal 



When col- 

 lected. 



April 12, 

 July 18, 

 May 14, 

 July 16, 

 May 2, 

 Nov. 22, 

 Jan. 27, 

 April 12, 

 M.iy 15, 

 Oct. 23, 

 Jan. 20, 

 June 6, 



1844 

 1844 

 1844 

 1844 

 1845 

 1842 

 1841 

 1844 

 1857 

 1824 

 1855 

 1857 



Whence obtained. 



May 14, 

 May 16, 

 June 20, 

 June 12, 

 ....do... 

 Sept. 8, 



18.56 

 1856 

 1856 

 1856 



S. F. Baird. 



do 



do.... 



dn.... 



do 



do... 



do 



Lt. Bryan 



Lt. Couch 



do 



W. M.Magraw.., 

 Dr. Hannnond.... 



Lt. Warren 



do 



do 



do 



do 



W. M- Magraw... 

 Dr. J. G. Cooper.. 



R. D. Cutts 



do 



Lt. Williamson... 



do 



J. X. de Vesey. . . 



Grig. 



No. 



Collected by- 



W. S. Wood, 



Dr. Cooper... 

 Mr. Oe Vesey 

 Dr. Hayden.. 



do 



do 



do.... 



do 



Dr. Cooper. 



Dr. Ileermann 

 do 



Length. 



5.08 

 4.92 

 5.25 

 4.92 

 4.83 

 4.75 



5.25 



5.00 

 4.75 

 4.75 



4.75 

 4.50 

 5.00 



Stretch 

 of wings. 



9.0O 

 8.75 

 8.83 

 8.67 

 8..50 

 8.50 



8.75 



8.50 

 8.75 

 8.75 



8.75 

 8.58 

 8.75 



Wing. 



3.00 

 2.83 

 2.92 

 2.75 

 2.75 

 2.75 



3.00 



2.87 

 3.25 

 2.50 



2.50 



2.87 



Remarks. 



Iris, bill, and feet dark brown. 



Eyes black?... 

 Iris ash color. 



Iris, bill, and feet dark brown. 

 Bill black, feet flesh color. 



CHRYSOMITRIS PSALTRIA., Bo nap. 



Arkansas Finch. 



Fringilla psallria, Say, Long's Exped. R. Mts. II, 1823, 40.— Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 85 ; pi. 394. 



Fringilla {Carduelis) psaltria, Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 54 ; pi. G, f. 3. 



CardutUs psnltria, Aui). Syn. 1839, 117.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 134; pi. 183. 



Chrysomilris psaltria, Bp. List, 1838. — Ib. Consp. 1850,516. — Gambel, Jour. A. N. S.SdsoriosI, 1847,52. (Female.) 



Sp. Ch. Upper parts and sides of head and neck olive green. Hood, upper tail coverts, wings, and tail black. IJeneatli 



bright yellow. A band across the tips of the greater coverts, the ends of nearly all the quills, the outer edges of the tertiurics, 

 the extrenio bases of all the primaries, except the outer two, and a long rectangular patch on the inner webs of the outer three 

 tail feathers near the middle, white. Female with the upi)or parts geuenilly, and sides, olive green ; the wings and tail brown, 

 their while marks as in the male. Length, 4.95 ; wing, 2.41) ; tail, 1.85. 



//ad. — Southern Rocky mountains to the coast of California. 



This goldfinch is more like C. trislis than any other of our species. Tlie upper parts are, 

 however, oUve green, instead of yellow. The whole under parts are yellow, even including 

 the under tail coverts. Tlierc is no white on tlio lesser wing coverts. The bill is slenderer 

 and more curved. The tliird quill is longest ; the first, second, and fourth successively a little 

 shorter. The tail is less deeply forked than in C. Irislis. 



