niBDS — FBINOILLIDAE — CITRYSOMITRIh PINUS. 



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CHRYSOMITRIS PINUS, Bonap. 



Pino Finch. 



Fringillii ylnus, Wii.sos, Am. Orn. II, 1810, KO ; |)I. xvii, f. 1.— Ai u. Orn. Biog. 11, 1834, 455 : V, 509 ; pi. IHO. 



Fringilla (Carduclis) pinus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 103. 



Linaria pinus, AvD. Synopsis, 1839, 115. — Is. BIrda Amer. Ill, I84I, ll}.') ; pi. 180. 



Chrysomilris piniu, BoNAr. Consp. 1850, 515. 



?.' Chrysomitrii macroptera, DuBUS, E^q. Orn. tab. 23, (Mexico.) — Bp. ConBpcctus, 18.')0, 515. 



Si'. Ch. — Tail deeply forked. Above brownish olive. Beneath whitish, every feather streaked distinctly with dusky. Con- 

 cealed b:iscs of tail feathers and quills, together with their inner edges, sulphur yellow. Outer edges of quills and tail feathers 

 yellowish green. Two brownish white bands on the wing. Length, 4.75 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.20. 



Uttb. — Nortli America from Atlantic to Pbcific. 



The lower part of the belly is less spotted thaa elsewhere. 



In winter tlie yellow colors are much less distinct, scarcely appreciable on the body, in fact ; 

 the brown streak less sharply defined. In young specimens it is scarcely appreciable, even on 

 the wings and tail. 



The extent of the yellow at the base of the quills and tail feathers varies with the individual. 

 Sometimes it is visible more or less distinctly beyond the wing coverts and spurious quills. 

 Sometimes the streaks beneath are less distinct, leaving the under parts almost white. Some- 

 times the upper parts, the rump especially, arc tinged with yellow. 



I do not find before me any North American specimens differing from types in the greater 

 length of quills and tarsus, as is said to be the case in C macroptera, Dubus, (Bonap. Consp. 

 1850, 515.) The yellow of the wings and tail given as peculiar to macroptera is found in all 

 full plumaged specimens of pinus. 



List of specimens. 



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