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U. S. p. E, R. EXP. AND SURVEYS— ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



In winter the yellow is replaced by yellowish hrown ; the hlack of the crown wanting ; that 

 of wings and tail browner. The throat is generally yellowish ; the under parts ashy brown, 

 passing behind into white. 



In No. 8339 the white on the inner edge of the tail feathers^ instead of passing obliquely in a 

 straight outline to the inner edge of the feather, constitutes a quadrate blotch in the terminal 

 fourth. There is less white on the wing coverts. 



List of specimens. 



CHRYSOMITEIS PSALTRIA., Bonap. 



Arkansas Finch. 



Fnng,illa fsaltna. Sat, Long's Exped. R. Mts. II, 1823, 40.— Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 85 ; pi. 394. 



Fringilla {Carduelis) psaltria, Bon. Am. Ora I, 1825, 54 ; pi. 6, f. 3. 



Carduelis psaltria, Add. Syn. 1839, 117.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 134 ; pi. 183. 



Chrysomitrispsaltria, Bp. List, 1838. — Ib. Consp. 1850, 516. — Gameel, Jour. A. N. S. 2d series 1, 1847, 52. (Female.) 



Sp. Ch. — Upper parts and sides of head and neck olive green. Hood, upper tail coverts, wings, and tail black. Beneath 

 bright yellow. A band across the tips of the greater coverts, the ends of nearly all the quills, the outer edges of the tertiaries, 

 the extreme bases of all the primaries, except the outer two, and a long rectangular patch on the inner webs of the outer three 

 tail feathers near the middle, white. Female with the upper parts generally, and sides, olive green ; the wings and tail brown, 

 their white marks as in the male. Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.40 ; tail, 1.85. 



Hab. — Southern Rocky mountains to the coast of California. 



This goldfinch is more like O. tristis than any other of our species. The upper parts are, 

 however, olive green, instead of yellow. The whole under parts are yellow, even including 

 the under tail coverts. There is no white on the lesser wing coverts. The bill is slenderer 

 and more curved. The third quill is longest ; the first, second, and fourth successively a little 

 shorter. The tail is less deeply forked than in 0. tristis. 



