400 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



and tail black; basal portion of primaries, secondaries, and tail- 

 feathers gamboge-yellow ; upper parts greenish olive-yellow, the 

 back sometimes spotted or clouded with dusky; lower parts rich 

 gamboge-yellow. Ytfung : Head olive above and yellow beneath, 

 like body ; colors all duller, but pattern of wings and tail same as 

 in adult. Length about 4.50-4.75, wing 2.40-2.70, tail 1.70-2.00, 

 exposed culmen .42-.4S. 



<P. More yellowish olive above and brighter yellow beneath ; black of 

 throat extending back to, and including, upper part of chest. 

 Hab. Highlands of Guatemala and southern Mexico, north at 

 least to mountains of Vera Cruz ; accidental in Kentucky. 



532. S. notatus (Du Bus). Black-headed Goldfinch. 

 cP. More olive-green above, more olivaceous-yellow beneath ; black of 

 throat hot extending to chest. Hab. Mountains of Durango. 



S. forreri (SALT. & GODM.). Ferrer's Goldfinch. 1 



c 2 . Adult : Top of head black ; back, etc., dark olive-green ; lower parts 

 lighter olive-green (sometimes more grayish) ; wings and tail black, 

 with terminal half of greater wing-coverts and terminal edges and 

 tips of tertials bright olive-green ; a spot of bright yellow at base 

 of primaries; wing 2.80, tail 1.80-1.90. Hab. Guatemala. 



S. atriceps (SALV.). Salvin's Goldfinch.'- 1 



W. Plumage conspicuously streaked, above and below, the head without any 

 black. 



Adult: Above grayish or brownish, below whitish, everywhere 

 streaked with dusky; basal portion of secondaries and tail-feathers 

 sulphur-yellow. Young: Similar to adult, but with more or less 

 of a fulvous suffusion, especially on tips of wing-coverts. Length 

 4.50-5.25, wing 2.75-2.90, tail 1.85-1.95. Nest usually a rather flat 

 though compact structure of fine twigs, rootlets, hair, plant-fibres, 

 etc., lined with fine rootlets and hair. Eggs usually 3 or 4, about 

 .62 X -50, pale greenish blue, speckled, chiefly on or round larger 

 end, with reddish brown, usually mixed with a few small black 

 markings. Hab. Northern North America, breeding from northern 

 United States northward, and south in Eocky Mountains ; south, in 

 winter, to Gulf States and Mexico. 



533. S. pinus (WiLs.). Pine Siskin. 



GENUS CARDUELIS BRISSON.' (Page 383, pi. CY., fig. 4.) 



Species. 



Adult (sexes alike} : Fore-part of head, all round, crimson ; lores, hinder part 

 of crown, occiput, and bar from latter half-way across side of neck, black ; rest of 



1 Chrysomitris forreri SALV. A GODM., Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i. Nov. 1886, 429. 



Chrytomitris atriceps SALV., P. Z. S. 1863, 190. 



8 Carduelis BRISSON, Orn. iii. 1760, 53. Type, Fringilla carduelis LINN. 



