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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS EGGS. 



531. Lawrence Goldfinch. Astragalinus lawrencei. 



Range. Pacific coast of California, wintering along the Mexican border. 



This grayish colored Goldfinch has a black face and yellow breast, rump, 

 wing coverts and edges of the primaries. They are quite common in their 

 restricted range, nesting either in upright crotches or in the forks of horizontal 

 limbs. The four or five eggs which they lay are pure white; size .60 x 45. 

 Data. Santa Monica Canyon, Cal., April 26, 1903. Nest in a cypress tree 12 feet 

 up; composed of grasses, feathers, etc. Collector, W. Lee Chambers. 



[532]. Black-headed Goldfinch. 



Range. Mountainous regions 

 accidental in the United States. 



Spinus notatus. 

 of Central America and southern Mexico; 



European Goldfinch. Cardueliscarduelis. 



jfe Range. Europe. Introduced into several localities in eastern 



j United States and appears to have gained a strong hold in New 



&^jp^ York. Has been found nesting in Central Park, New York City, 



and in Cambridge and Worcester, Mass. Their nests are made 



[Greenish white] * pl ant fibres, grasses and weeds and the eggs are greenish 



white, sparsely spotted and lined with blackish brown. 



Photo by Norman W. Swayne. 

 NEST AND EGGS OF GOLDFINCH. 



