218 FRINGILLID^. 



Astragalinus notatus, Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 356 (1884). 

 Spinus notatus, Stejneger, Avk, ii. p. 362 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check- 

 list N. Amer. B. p. 262 (1886). 



Adult male (Buenos Ayres, Dec. 31, 1876). General colour above 

 uniform olive-yellow, the rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellow ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts black, 

 tipped with bright yellow ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 quills black, edged with yellow, the bases conspicuously bright 

 yellow, the shafts only black ; tail-feathers black, yellow at base ; 

 nape, sides of face, and throat black ; hind neck and sides of neck 

 bright yellow, almost forming a collar on the former ; fore neck and 

 under surface of body bright yellow, including the under tail-coverts, 

 axillaries, under wing-coverts, and base of quills below : " bill, legs, 

 and feet nearly black ; iris dark wood-brown " (B. DurnforcV). 

 Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-9, tail 1-75, tarsus 

 0-55. 



Adult female (Cosquin, July 18). Different from the male. Above 

 greyish green, a little more yellow on the rump ; upper tail-coverts 

 olive edged with ashy ; head like the back, but a little washed with 

 yellow on the forehead ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts blackish, edged with ashy whitish ; quills as in 

 the male, but the yellow at the base less extended, and the secon- 

 daries edged with white near the ends of the outer web ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown with concealed bases of pale yellow ; sides of 

 face and under surface of body ashy, washed with pale greenish 

 yellow on the throat and under tail-coverts ; the abdomen whitish, 

 as also the long under tail-coverts. Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2-55, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-5. 



The principal feature of this eastern and southern race of the 

 Black-faced Siskin is the uniform back ; but this character is not very 

 positive, as some specimens (probably in seasonal plumage, as the 

 bill is pale) have the back slightly mottled with dusky bases. The 

 difference between C. icterica and C. capitalis will probably be found 

 too slight to allow of their being separated even as races. 



Sab. Brazil and Argentine Republic to Chili. 



a. $ ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



b. c? ad. sk. Chili (Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Pampas Argentinas (Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. e. c? $ ad. sk. Salta, June 21, 1878. ' Henry Durnford, Esq. 



[C.J. 

 f A ad sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Argentine Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Eepublic, June 20, 1882 (E. 

 W. White). 

 q Q ad sk. Cosquin, July 18, 1882 (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. White), 

 h. c? ad. sk. Buenos Ayres {Haslehust). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



riean birds on the supposition that Audubon really procured that species. The 

 bird figured by the latter author is, however, undoubtedly C. icterica or C. 

 capitalis, and is not the black -winged C. notata, which at present is not known 

 to occur within North-American limits. 



