CHRYSOMITRIS UROPYGIALIS. 

 THE YELLOW-RUMPED SISKIN. 



PLATE II. 



Chrysomitris atratiis, Cassin, Gilliss's Expedition, ii. p. 181 (1855). 



Chrysomitris xanthomelcena, Reichb. ? Journ. fur orn. 1855, p. 55. 



Fringilla sp. ? Eyton, Cat. Birds, p. 256. No. 3211 (1856). 



Chrysomitris uropygialis, Scl. Cat. Amer. Birds, p. 125 (1862), 



Chrysomitris uropygialis^ Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1865, p. 91. 



Chrysomitris uropygialis^ Scl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 322, 338. 



Chrysomitris uropygialis, Phil. Anal. Univers. Chile, xxxi. 1868, pp. 

 263, 295, 303, 316, 325, 329. 



Chrysoinitris xanthomelcena, Phil. ? Anal. Univers. Chile, xxxi. 1868, p. 

 325. 



Fringilla xanthomelcena, Gray, ? Hand-List Birds, ii. p. 81 (1870). 



Fringilla uropygialis, Gray, Hand-List Birds, ii. p. 81 (1870). 



Chrysomitris uropygialis, Scl. et Salv. Nona. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873). 



Fringilla uropygialis, Russ. Stubenvogel, p. 395 (1879). 



Chrysomitris uropygialis, Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 54 (1886.) 



English. Yelloiv-rumped Siskin. Cordillerean Goldfinch. Chilian Siskin, 



French. Le Turin des Cordilleres. 



German. Goldbiirzeheisig. Kordilleren-Zeisig. 



Castellano. Jilgeuro de la Cordillera. 



Habitat. Chih, and Peruvian Andes. 



Male. Head, chin, throat and back dull black ; feathers of nape, mantle, scapulars and great 

 wing-coverts edged with yellowish-green'; wings blackish-brown, speculum lemon-yellow, 

 first primary black ; tertials broadly edged with yellowish-white ; secondaries tipped with 

 same ; rump, breast, beUy, under-wing and tail-coverts and basal two thirds of tail 

 bright lemon-yellow ; under side of wing pale yellow ; upper tail-coverts and rest of tail 

 blackish-brown : iris dark brown ; bill dark slaty-brown, lower mandible paler ; legs 

 blackish-brown : length 5-2, wing 3-2, tail 2-15, tars. 0'6, culm. 4. 



