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Tail with white on inner irebs ; tertiuh with large white spots. 



(J. Auriculars, nape, back, and rump olive-green. Hub. Rocky 



Mountains of United States vox. p sal tria. 



^. Auriculars Ijlack ; nape, back, and rump green clouded with 



black. Hah. Arizona var. arizonoe. 



$. Auriculars, nape, back, and rump entirely black. Hah. Mid- 

 dle America var. mexicana. 



Tail without any ivhite on inner luehs ; teriials without ivhite spots. 



(J. Auriculars, nape, back, and rump wholly black. Hah. Pan- 

 ama and New Granada Y&r. Columbiana. 



b. Terminal half of outer webs of wing-coverts and secondaries yellow. 



3. C. lawrencii. Prevailing color ashy, hghter beneath. ^. A large 

 patch on the breast, the rump, and most of the outer surface of the 

 wing, yellow ; forehead, crown, lores, all round base of bill, chin, wings 

 (beneath the yellow), and tail black. 9 . Lacking the black, and with 

 the yellow only indicated. Hab. California and Southwestern Arizona. 



B. Whole body and head thickly streaked ; bases of tail-feathers yellow. Sexes 

 alike. (Astragalinus.) 



4. C. pinus. Above brownish-gray, beneath white, with conspicuous 

 dusky streaks everywhere ; tvi^o light bands on the wing ; bases of 

 secondaries and primaries yellow. Hab. Whole of North America. 



Tliree species of Chrysomitris; given by Mr. Audubon, are to be erased 

 from the list : C. stanhiji, C. yarrdli, and C. magcllanica. If, as he states, 

 he killed specimens of the latter in Kentucky, they must have belonged to 

 the C. notata of Dubus, a Mexican species, not since met with in our limits. 

 The other two were given him as coming from California, — a statement we 

 now know to be incorrect, both belonging to South America. 



Chrysomitris tristis, Bon. 



YELLOW-BIRD ; THISTLE-BIRD. 



Fringilla tristis, LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 320. — WiLS. Am. Orn. I, 1808, 20, pi. i, f. 2. 

 — AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 172 ; V, 510, pi. xxxiii. Cardueles tristis, Bon. Obs. 

 Wils. 1825, No. 96. — AuD. Birds Am. II, 1841, 129, pi. clxxxi. — Max. Cab. Journ. 

 vi, 1858, 281. Chrysomitris tristis. Box. List, 1838. —Newberry, Zobl. Cal. & Or. 

 Eoute ; Rep. P. R. R. Surv. VII, iv, 1857, 87. — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 1858, 421.— 

 Cooper & Suckley, 197. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 167. Jstragalinus tristis, Cabanis, 

 Mus. Hein. 1851, 159 (type). Cardudis americana, (Edwards,) Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. 

 II, 1831, 268. Golden Finch, Pennant. American Goldfinch, Edwards. Chcrdon- 

 neretjaune ; Chardonneret du Canada; Tarin de la Nouvellc Yorck, Buffon. — Ib. PI. 

 enl., pi. ccii, f. 2, pi. ccxcii, f. 1. — Samuels, Birds N. Eng. 288. 



Sp. Char. ^fale. Bright gamboge-yellow ; crown, wings, and tail black. Lesser 

 Aving-coverts, band across the end of greater ones, ends of secondaries and tertiaries, inner 

 margins of tail-feathers, upper and under tail-coverts, and tibia white. Length, 5.25 

 inches; wing, 3.00. Female. Yellowish-gray above; greenish-yellow below. No black 

 on forehead. Wing and tail much as in the male. Young. Reddish-olive above; fulvous- 



