Arizona Goldfinch 345 
In Colorado the Arkansas Goldfinch is a common summer bird. 
especially in the southern parts of the State; it is far less abundant 
north of the Arkansas-Platte Divide, but has been taken as far as 
Cheyenne, just over the Wyoming border. It is a late comer from the 
south, as a rule not appearing before June, but Aiken has taken it at 
Colorado Springs as early as April 20th, while in the fall it does not 
leave till the end of October or beginning of November, Beaver Creek 
Fremont co., November llth (Aiken collection) is the latest date I 
have met with. It is chiefly found in the plains and foothills, but 
goes up into the mountains as high at least as 9,000 feet (Crested 
Butte, Gunnison co. Warren). Other localities are: Boulder co. 
(Henderson), near Denver (Morrison), Pueblo (Aiken apud Henshaw), 
Meeker and Steamboat Springs (Cary), Glenwood Springs, breeding 
(Cooke), Bedrock (Warren), Animas River, San Juan co. (Drew), Fort 
Lewis, breeding (Morrison). 
Habits.—Like the other Goldfinches, this species is 
generally seen in flocks in waste places where thistles 
and other weeds grow ; and on the seeds of these it chiefly 
feeds. Little has been recorded about its nesting habits, 
which seem to resemble those of the other Goldfinches ; 
Morrison found a nest in a cotton-wood sapling, at Fort 
Lewis, while a photograph of a nest containing two 
eggs, evidently built in a scrub-oak bush, near Beulah, 
Pueblo co., taken by H. W. Nash, is here reproduced 
(Plate 14, Fig. 2). 
Arizona Goldfinch. Astragalinus psaltria arizone. 
A.O.U. Checklist (2nd ed.) no 530a—Colorado Records—Morrison 
89, p. 36; Cooke 97, pp. 99, 213. 
Description.—Closely resembling A. psaltria, but the olive-green of 
the back intermixed with black in varying amounts; dimensions 
about the same; females indistinguishable from the typical form. 
Distribution.—The south-western borders of the United States from 
western Texas to California, north to Colorado, south to north-west 
Mexico. In Colorado this form of the Arkansas Goldfinch is a rather 
rare summer bird; it has been taken as far north as Loveland and 
Golden by Professor Osburn in the breeding season, and there are 
several examples in the Aiken collection from Colorado Springs, killed 
in August, and from Fremont co. It was found breeding at Glenwood 
Springs by Wm. Cross and in La Plata co. by Morrison. 
