PASSEEES— FEINGILLIDAE— C. PSALTEIA VAR. AKIZONAE. 245 



A. Birds, i, 1S74, 474, pi. sxii, f. 9, 10.— Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. 



Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 13. — Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hist. 



N. Y., xi, 1874, 5.— Id., Au. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 



43.— Id., Eep. Orn. Specs., 1S73, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 109.— Coues, Birds 



Northwest, 1874, 116. 

 Carduelis psaltria, Heerm., P. B. R. Eep., x, pt. ii, 1859, 50. 

 Chrysomitris (Pseudomitris) psaltria, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1800,80 (Fort 



Whipple, Ariz.). 



CHEYSOMITKIS PSALTEIA (Say), var. AEIZONAE, Coues. 



Arizona Goldfinch. 



Plate IV, Fig. 1. 



Chrysomitris mexkana var. arizoncc, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 82. — 



Cooper, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 170. 

 Chrysomitris psaltria var. arizonm, Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 132, f. 72. — Bd., 



Brew., & Eidg., N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 476, pi. xxii, f. 11.— Henshaw, Eep. 



Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 109.— Coues, Birds Northwest, 



1874, 117. 

 Chrysomitris mexicanc, (?) Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 117 (New Mexico). 



The Arkansas Goldfinch in its typical dress appears to be the form 

 prevailing over the entire portion of Colorado and Utah, and probably 

 also in the more northern parts of Arizona and New Mexico. At Pueblo, 

 Colo., Mr. Aiken obtained several specimens, which, though most resembling 

 psaltria, have a few faint dashes of black mingled with the green of the 

 back, thus showing at this point a slight approach toward the Arizona form. 

 Near Santa Fe', several specimens were taken in June, without doubt breed- 

 ing here, which are quite typical of the variety arizonaz, and it is about in 

 this latitude that this form replaces the more northern psaltria, the two, 

 however, becoming in winter mingled together, so that occasionally both 

 may be taken from the same flock. Their habits correspond pretty closely 

 with those of the common Goldfinch (C. tristis). They feed very much upon 

 the seeds of various weeds, and are very fond of those of the thistle, and 

 in the fall may always be found in the neighborhood of these plants. In 

 the plates the difference between the two species may plainly be perceived. 



