eee GRINNELL, A New Race of Spinus tristis. 397 
NEW RACE OF SPINUS TRISTIS FROM THE 
PACINIC ‘COAST, 
BY JOSEPH GRINNELL. 
Spinus tristis salicamans, new subspecies. WILLOW 
GOLDFINCH. 
Winter Plumage :— Similar to corresponding plumage of eastern 5S. 
trist?s, but browner with much broader wing-markings. In these respects 
it thus resembles S. ¢. Aallédus, but is easily distinguishable by its extreme 
darkness. 
Type, & ad., No. 575, Coll. J. G., Pasadena, California, Dec. 21, 1895. 
Above dark olive-tawny; rump lighter; sides and flanks shaded with color 
of back; under tail-coverts white, tinged with tawny; throat gamboge 
yellow shading into dull green on middle of breast; abdomen pure white ; 
sides of head like throat, excepting the ear-coverts which are of the color 
of the back. Wings and tail black; white skirtings of the tail-feathers 
scarcely exceeding those of S. ¢rdstis, but the markings on the wings 
much extended. Greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming 
a bar across the closed wing .18 of an inch wide; median coverts also 
broadly white tipped; lesser coverts olive-green; primaries narrowly 
tipped, and secondaries and tertiaries broadly tipped and outwardly 
margined with white. The white markings of the wings more or less 
tinged with tawny. Bill chrome yellow at base, dusky-tipped. 
The female in winter plumage is similar to the male, but the black of 
the wings and tail is less pure, and the throat is duller colored; bill dusky. 
Summer Plumage :—In this plumage the male is scarcely distinguish- 
able from S. ¢r7s¢és; the black cap is, if anything, not so extended, and 
the yellow is not so pure and intense as in the eastern form. The white 
edgings of the wing-feathers are often entirely worn off, so that the wing 
is left with barely a trace of white. Bill, in life, darker, almost orange- 
ochraceous. The wing and tail average shorter, and the bill bulkier. 
The female in breeding plumage is readily separable from the eastern 
bird by its much darker color. The female S. ¢rs¢¢s is brightly tinged 
over the whole breast with yellowish green, while the female S. ¢. 
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1 Average of 15 ad. OS of Spznus tristzs 
salicamans from Pasadena, Cal. 2-76 OT 39 32 33 27 
Average of 15 ad. fh of Spznus tristis 
from Washington, D. C. 288h/ 2:05 -36 "30 “32 25 
1 Measurements are in inches. 
