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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Chrysomitris pinus, Bonap. 



PINE GOLDFINCH. 



Fringilla jnnus, Wilson, Am. Oni. II, 1810, 133, pi. xvii, f. 1. — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 

 1834, 455 ; V, 509, pi. clxxx. Fringilla {Carduelis) pinus, BoN. Obs. Wils. 1825, 

 No. 103. Li)ia7-ia pintis, AuD. Synopsis, 1839, 115. — Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 125, 

 pi. clxxx. Chrysomitris pinus, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 515. — Baiud, Birds N. Am. 

 1858, 425. — Cooper & Suckley, 197. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 172. — Samuels, 290. 

 .?.? Chrysomitris macroptera, DuBUS, Esq. Orn. tab. 23 (Mexico). — Bp. Conspectus, 

 1850, 515. 



Sp. Char. Tail deeply forked. Above brownish-olive. Beneath whitish, every feather 



streaked distinctly with dusky. Concealed 

 bases of tail-feathers and quills, together with 

 their inner edges, sulphur-yellow. Outer 

 edges 01 quills and tail-feathers yellowish- 

 green. Two brownish-white bands on the 

 wing. Length. 4.75 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.20. 

 Sexes alike. Young similar, but the white 

 below tinged with yellow, the upper parts 

 with reddish-brown, and there are two pale 

 ochraceous bands on the wing. 

 c/irysomitris pinus. Hab. North America from Atlantic to 



Pacific; Vera Cruz, plateau and alpine region (Scmichkast, I, 550). 



Specimens from all parts of Nortli America appear to be the same, but 

 there is a great deal of variation among individuals. No. 10,225 ^, Fort 

 Tejon, California, and 51,636, Colorado Territory, are almost entirely M'hite 

 beneath, the streaks being hardly observable. 32,765, Mexico, and 9,524, 

 Washington Territory, are unstreaked medially. No. 11,096, Fort Bridger, 

 has the streaks on the sides unusually broad, and very black. 



In autumn and winter a reddish-brown tinge overspreads the upper parts. 



Habits. Though classed with the Goldfinches of this country, the Pine 

 Finch, in many respects more nearly resembles, in its habits and nidification, 

 the Carpodaci. It is found throughout the United States, from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific. In the winter it extends its irregular migrations into the Cen- 

 tral States, as far as Xorthern California on the Pacific, and Southern Penn- 

 sylvania on- the Atlantic. It breeds throughout the British Provinces, 

 Northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Michigan, and 

 thence to Washington Territory, in all the evergreen forests. 



At Calais, Me., it is resident throughout the year, and breeds there, but is 

 much more common in the winter than in the summer. In Western Maine, 

 Professor Verrill observed it very common, both in the spring and in the 

 fall, but never found it breeding. He found it very abundant about the 

 Umbagog lakes in July, where it was evidently breeding. It breeds also 

 abundantly among the White Mountains. 



Mr. Ridgway first saw the Pine Finch on the East Humboldt Mountains, ' 



