Vol. XVII Ninth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List. 11^ 



i8gg J * J " 



Genus SPINUS Koch (Check-List, 2d ed., p. 218). This, in 

 part, becomes 



Genus ASTRAG-ALINUS Cab. 



Asiragattnus Car. Mus. Hein. T, 185 1, 159. Type, Fringitta 

 tristis Linn. (Cf. Ridgw. Auk, XV, Jan., 1899, 79.) 



Hence Nos. 529 to 532 will stand as follows: 



529. Spinus tristis (Linn.). This becomes 

 Astragalinus tristis (Linn.). 

 American Goldfinch. 

 Fringitta tristis Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, I, 1758, 181. 

 Astragalinus tristis Cabanis, Mus. Hein. I, July, 185 1, 159. 



[B 313, part, C \\y,part, R 181, part, C 2 13, part.] 



Geog. Dist. — Temperate North America, east of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



529tf. Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns. This becomes 

 Astragalinus tristis pallidus (Mearns). 

 Pale Goldfinch. 



Spinus tristis pallidus Mearns, Auk, VII, July, 1890, 244. 

 Astragal huts tristis pallidus Ridgw. Auk, XVI, Jan. 1899, 



79- 



[B^i^part, C 149, part, R 181, pari, C 213, part] 



Geog. Dist. — Great Basin region, from Arizona northward,, 

 and south into Mexico. 



529£. Astragalinus tristis salicamans (Grinnell). 

 Willow Goldfinch. 



Spinus tristis salicamans Grinnell, Auk, XIV, Oct. 1897, 



397- 

 Astragalinus tristis salicamans Ridgw. Auk, XVI, Jan. 1899, 



79- 



