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this is a record for California. There is no question as to the identity for 

 I am familiar with both our American forms. P. nuttallii occurs as far 

 north along the Sacramento River as Shasta County. — R. C. McGregor, 



I '. S. Fish Hatchery, Battle Creek, Cat. 



On the Genus Astragalinus Cabanis. — When Cabanis established the 

 genus Astragalinus (Mns. llein. J, July, 1851, 159) he mentioned no 

 type, but ranged under the generic name A. tristis, A. ?nexicatius, and A. 

 columbianus, and in a footnote mentions also A. pislacintes and A. yarrelli 

 "as the nearest relatives of the type of the genus," which must, therefore 

 have been one of the above mentioned species. In the catalogue of the 

 Fringillidse in the collection of the British .Museum (Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mns. XII, iSSS, 192), Dr. Sharpe gives the type as Fringilla tristis Lin- 

 luvus; and that he is correct in doing so is proven by the fact that the 

 only one of the three species named hv Cabanis to he made the type of 

 another supposed genus is Fringilla psaltria Say (conspecific with 

 Cardttelis mexicanus Swainson), which Cassin, fourteen years later, 

 designated as type of his subgenus Pseudomitris (Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. 

 Phila. 1865, 93). This clearly establishes Fringilla tristis as the type 

 of the genus Astragalinus, even were F. psaltria (with its subspecies 

 mexicanus and columbianus) generically distinct, which they are not. 

 Cardttelis latvrencei C;issiu is also an Astragalinus, and the only known 

 species of the genus not mentioned by Cabanis. The genus is confined, 

 so far as known, to North America, one form barely entering the northern 

 frontier of the southern continent. This is Astragalinus psaltria Colum- 

 biana, which ranges from Colombia to Costa Rica. Cardttelis yarrelli 

 Audubon, which Cabanis, in the footnote cited above, refers to Astraga- 

 linus is a Spinas, as are all other purely South American species, as well 

 as all of I hose peculiar to Mexico and Central America (excepting, of 

 course, the subspecitic forms of Astragalinus psaltria). 



The North American species ami subspecies of Astragalinus are as 

 follows : — 



529. Astragalinus tristis (Linn.). 



A. [stragaliuus] tristis Cabanis, Mus. Ilein. I, July, 1851, 1 so. 



529ft. Astragalinus tristis pallidus ( Mearns ). 



529^. Astragalinus tristis salicamans ( Grinnell). 

 Spinas tristis salicamans Grinnell, Auk, XIV, Oct. 1897, 397. 

 Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast district of United States. 



530. Astragalinus psaltria (Say). 



Astragalinus psaltria Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill Aug. 27, 

 1880, 177. 



530rt. Astragalinus psaltria arizon^ (Coues). 

 Astragalinus psaltria arizona; Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Ill, 

 Aug. 27, 1880, 177. 



53oZ>. Astragalinus psaltria mexicanus (Swains.). 



