Toung Male. Like the adult, but paler, with a small elongated black shaft-spot on 

 the two longest under tail-coverts. 



Female. Similar to male ; duller, the yellow on the centre of the belly and breast, more 

 extended ; the two black shaft-spots on the under tail-coverts, longer and broader 

 than in the young male ; bill and legs as in the male. 



OJjs. The extent of the yellow markings of both sexes, depend upon age. 



Although this curiously coloured Siskin was described by La Fresnaye 

 and D'Orbigny in 1837, from specimens obtained by the latter at La Paz 

 in Bolivia, comparatively little has been said respecting its habits. 



M. D'Orbigny in his 'Voyage Dans L'Amerique Meridionale,' adds 

 the following particulars to this species — " This Goldfinch is proper only 

 to the great ravines of La Paz in Bolivia at a height of 3,700 metres above 

 the level of the sea, latitude 17" degrees south. It rests on the bushes, 

 fiys in small flocks, especially in the winter, it is very familiar and has 

 the manners of our European goldfinch. Its habits are lively, its flight 

 easy and short. The people rear them in cages for their very agreeable 

 song ; the Spaniards call it Gilguero and the Aymaras Chaijna." 



It was also obtained by Mr. Bridges in Bolivia, Mr. H. Whitely 

 secured specimens at Pitumarca in High Peru, at an elevation of 11,000 

 to 14,000 feet above the sea-level, examples in my collection, were 

 collected by Mr. Weishaupt at Mendoza in the Plata Confederation, and 

 M. Jelski has lately procured it, -udth the nests and eggs at Junin in 

 Central Peru, at an elevation of about 11,000 feet. 



It is clear when we consider the altitude of the localities, in which 

 this bird has been found, that it is exclusively a mountainous resident, 

 keeping to the upper great valleys of the Andes, and occupying an area, 

 as far as I am able to judge from the above localities, of about 11" n. lat. 

 and 35" s. whether it extends its migration into Patagonia, we must leave 

 to future observation. 



The only account published respecting the nidification of this bird, is 

 that given by M. L. Taczanowski in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society' 1874, from the nests and eggs obtained by M. Jelski at Junin. 



