398 GRINNELL, A New Race of Spinus tristzs. ae 
salicamans is dull greenish yellow on the throat, becoming still duskier 
anteriorly. Even juveniles of the Willow Goldfinch just from the nest 
are deeper and darker colored than those of 5S. ¢rzs¢7s proper. 
Habitat. — Pacific Coast, from Washington to Southern California. 
This geographical race seems as well pronounced as many others 
of the dark Pacific Coast forms. As might be expected, speci- 
mens from Oregon and Washington in winter plumage are slightly 
darker and browner than Southern California birds; but as the 
Willow Goldfinches are of a wandering disposition, and at least 
slightly migratory in the northern part of their habitat, this vari- 
ation is not great. . 
The habitat of saZcamans seems to be perfectly divided southerly 
from that of pallidus of the Great Basin. The Colorado Desert 
and the high Sierras form a broad territory from which I have 
seen no records, and which cannot be regularly crossed. The 
only specimens of an intermediate character are from the northern 
part of the Great Basin, where they seem to combine in part the 
characters of ¢ristis, pallidus and salicamans, and are hardly refer- 
able to either. Several specimens of the latter from California 
show a considerable extension of the white on the inner webs of 
the tail-feathers, but so do occasional eastern birds. 
I have examined 175 Goldfinches from nearly every State; the 
winter birds vary greatly in respect to the tone of coloration, but 
as this species is more or less migratory throughout its range, it is 
hard to draw any lines. Specimens from Texas (Fort Clark, Coll. 
E. A. Mearns) in particular, are light colored and grayer than any 
others, though showing no pronounced tendency toward pallidus. 
If I judge rightly from specimens at hand, the spring moult of 
the Eastern Goldfinch takes place during two or three weeks in 
April. In Southern California, however, the spring moult in 
many individuals of S. ¢. salicamans begins in January and 
extends far into May. Thus a series of specimens taken from 
January to May, presents every gradation of plumage from winter 
to full summer, but none entirely in one or the other. They fre- 
quently breed early, before the spring moult is completed. I 
have adult males, taken with sets of eggs in April, that possess 
but a few of the bright yellow feathers, and the black crown is 
but imperfectly indicated. In certain tracts of feathers, I have 
