400 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
and tail black; basal portion of primaries, secondaries, and tail-° “ 
feathers gamboge-yellow; upper parts greenish olive-yellow, the 
back sometimes spotted or clouded with dusky; lower parts rich 
gamboge-yellow. Young: Head olive above and yellow beneath, 
like body; colors all duller, but pattern of wings and tail same as 
in adult. Length about 4.50-4.75, wing 2.40-2.70, tail 1.70-2.00, 
exposed culmen 42-48. 
d', More yellowish olive above and brighter yellow beneath ; black of 
throat extending back to, and including, upper part of chest. 
Hab. Highlands of Guatemala and southern Mexico, north to 
mountains of Vera Cruz and Chihuahua; accidental in Kentucky. 
532. S. notatus (Du Bus). Black-headed Goldfinch. 
ad, More olive-green above, more olivaceous-yellow beneath ; black of 
throat not extending to chest. Hab. Mountains of Durango. 
S. forreri (Sav. & Gopm.). Forrer’s Goldfinch. 
ce. Adult: Top of head black; back, ete., dark olive-green; lower parts 
lighter olive-green (sometimes more grayish) ; wings and tail black, 
with terminal half of greater wing-coverts and terminal edges and 
tips of tertials bright olive-green ; a spot of bright yellow at base 
of primaries; wing 2.80, tail 1.80-1.90. Hab. Guatemala. 
S. atriceps (Satv.). Salvin's Goldfinch.? 
b%. Plumage conspicuously streaked, above and below, the head without any 
black. 
Adult: Above grayish or brownish, below whitish, everywhere 
streaked with dusky; basal portion of secondaries and tail-feathers 
sulphur-yellow. Young: Similar to adult, but with more or less 
of a fulvous suffusion, especially on tips of wing-coverts. Length 
4.50-5.25, wing 2.75-2.90, tail 1.85-1.95. Nest usually a rather flat 
though compact structure of fine twigs, rootlets, hair, plant-fibres, 
etc., lined with fine rootlets and hair. ygs usually 3 or 4, about 
.62 X .50, pale greenish blue, speckled, chiefly on or round larger 
end, with reddish brown, usually mixed with a few small black 
markings. Hab. Northern North America, breeding from northern 
United States northward, and south in Rocky Mountains; south, in 
winter, to Gulf States and Mexico. 
533. S. pinus (Wizs.). Pine Siskin. 
Genus CARDUELIS Brisson? (Page 383, pl. CV., fig. 4.) 
Species. 
Adult (sexes alike): Fore-part of head, all round, crimson; lores, hinder part 
of crown, occiput, and bar from latter half-way across side of neck, black; rest of 
1 Chrysomitris forreri SALv. & Gopm., Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i. Nov. 1886, 429. 
2 Chrysomitria atriceps Sauv., P, Z. 8. 1863, 190. 
3 Carduelie Brisson, Orn. iii, 1760, 53. Type, Fringilla carduelie Linn. 
