BIRDS FEINQILLIDAE — CHRYSOMITKIS PINUS. 



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CHRYSOMITRIS PINUS, Bonap. 



Pine Fiucb. 



Fringilla pinus, Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 133 ; pi. xvii, f. 1.— Aud. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 455 : V, 509 ; pi. 180. 



Fringilltt (Carduelis) pinus, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 103. 



lAnariapinm, Aitd. Synopsis, 1839, 115.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1843, 125 ; pi. 180. 



Chrysomitris pinus, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 515. 



?? Chrysomitris macroptera, Dubus, Esq. Orn. tab. 28, (Mexico.) — Bp. Conspectus, 1850, 515. 



Sp. Cb. — Tail deeply forked. Above brownish olivo. Beneath whitish, every feather strealced distinctly with dusky. Con- 

 cealed bases of tail feathers and quills, together with their inner edges, sulphur yellow. Outer edges of quills and tail feathers 

 yellowish green. Two brownish white bands on the wing. Length, 4.75 ; wing, 3.00 ; tail, 2.20. 



Hob. — North Americd from Atlantic to ^cific. 



The lower part of the belly is less spotted than elsewhere. 



In winter the yellow colors are much less distinct, scarcely appreciable on the body, in fact ; 

 the brown streak less sharply defined. In young specimens it is scarcely appreciable, even on 

 the wings and tail. 



The extent of the yellow at the base of the quills and tail feathers varies with the individual. 

 Sometimes it is visible more or less distinctly beyond the wing coverts and spurious quills. 

 Sometimes the streaks beneath are less distinct, leaving the under parts almost white. Some- 

 times the upper parts, the rump especially, are tinged with yellow. 



I do not find before me any North American specimens differing from types in the greater 

 length of quills and tarsus^ as is said to be the case in O. macroptera, Dubus, (Bonap. Oonsp. 

 1850, 515.) The yellow of the wings and tail given as peculiar to macroptera is found in all 

 full plumaged specimens of pinus. 



List of specimens. 



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