19S 



FEINGILLID^;. 



o. (5 ad. sk. Little Falls, Potomac, D.C. 



July 27, 1859 (E. Coues ; 



Sni. no. 28984). 

 p. 3 ad. sk. Smith's Woods, D.C, April 19, 



1861 (E. Cuues ; Sm. no. 



28987). 

 q. <5 ad. sk. Haw's Lot, D.C, April 24, 



1860 (Dr. Prentiss ; Sm. no. 



29982). 

 r. <3 ad. sk. California. 



Salrin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. National Mus. 



[P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Lord Walsingliam 



[P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 U. S. Nat. Museum 



[P.]. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



s, t. 3 ad. sk. California. 



m, (J ad. sk. Red Bluff, N. California, April 



18, 1884 (C. H. Townsend; 



Sm.no. 98297). 

 v. <S imm. sk. Jalapa (De Oca). 



w,x. <5 5imm.sk. Jalapa (De Oca), 

 y. 3 ad. st. Mexico. 



z. Skeleton, mtd. N. America. 



2. Chrysomitris yarrelli. 



Fringilla mexicana (nee Sw.), Auclub. B. Amer. v. p. 282, pi. 433*. 

 Carduelis yarrelli, Auclub. B. Amer. 8vo, iii. p. 136, pi. 184 (1841, 



6 nee $). 

 Fringilla yarrelli, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. 



p. 81, no. 7194 (1870). 

 Chrysomitris yarrellii, Bp. Camp. i. p. 517 (1850) ; Baird, B. 2V. 



Amer. p. 421 (1858) ; Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873) ; 



Baird, Brewer, fy Ridyiv. Hist. X. Amer. B. i. p. 471, note (1874) ; 



Bidfftv. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 213 (1880) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 338. 

 Astragalinus yarrelli, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 159, note (1850) ; 



Bidcjic. Pr.'U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 213 (1880). 

 Chrysomitris hypoxantha, Cab. J. f. 0. 1866, p. 160; Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. p. 231, note, p. 440 (1871). 

 Fringilla hypoxantha, Gray, B.and-1. B. ii. p. 81, no. 7184 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, paler and clearer 

 yellow on the hind neck ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts black, broadly tipped with yellow ; bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts black ; quills black, edged with olive-yellow 

 towards the ends, the secondaries with whitish, all but the inner- 

 most secondaries bright yellow at the base ; tail-feathers black, 

 yellow for the basal half ; crown of head black, forming a cap ; 

 nape like the back ; lores and eyelid black ; ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 sides of neck, and entire under surface of body bright yellow, a 

 little greener on the sides of body and flanks ; under wing-coverts 

 and asillaries bright yellow ; quills below black, yellow along the 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 4 inches, culmen - 4, wing 

 2-45, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-5. 



* Tbe male is evidently the Brazilian C. yarrelli, but the female is either 

 C. -psaltria or C. mexicana. 



