100 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SPINUS PINUS MACROPTERUS (Du Bus). 

 MEXICAN PINE SISKIN, 



Similar to S. i?. pinus but with decidedly longer wings and tail, and 

 usually with the under parts less distinctly streaked. 



Adult maZ<?.— Length (skins), 115.06-123.19 (117.85); wing, 75.44- 

 78.23 (76.71); tail, 46.18-18.26 (47.50); exposed culmen, 10.16-11.18 

 (10.92); depth of bill at base, 6.86-7.11 (7.11); tarsus, 12.70-14.22 

 (13.72); middle toe, 10.92-11.18 (11.18).^ 



^&jZi! /emaZe.— Length (skin), 119.38; wing, 78.23; tail, 48.26; ex- 

 posed culmen, 10.67; depth of bill at base, 6.86; tarsus,. 14.73; middle 

 toe, 11.68.' 



Higher mountains of southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Las 

 Vigas, Jalapa, etc.), Puebla (Mount Orizaba), Mexico (Salazar), Zaca- 

 tecas (San Juan Capistrano), and Miohoacan (Patzcuaro). 



C [hrysomitris'] macroptera Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 515 (Guatemala; Mex- 

 ico; ex " Carduelis macroptera 'DxibViS, Esq., Orn. t. 23," ined.). 



Spinus pinus macropterus Chapman, Auk, xvi, July, 1897, 311 (Las Vigas, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico, alt. 8,000 ft. ; Am. Mus. N. H. ) ; Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 

 42 (Las Vigas, breeding) . 



Chrysomitris pinus (not Fringilla pinus Wilson) Sclatbk, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, 174 (valley of Mexico).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1869, 362 (City of Mexico).— Sumichkast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 550 (plateau and alpine region of Vera Cruz) . — Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 TVAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i,- 1874, 480, part (Mexico).— Coues, Birds N. W., 

 1874, 115, part (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 

 1886, 428, chiefly (Mexican references and localities). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 227 part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



{Chrysomitris'] pinus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34. 



Spinus pinus American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 533, part 

 (Mexico) . 



S.lpinus} pinus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 400, part (Mexico). 



SPINUS ATRICEPS (Salvin). 

 GUATEMALAN FINE SISKIN, 



Adult male. — Entire pileum uniform black; back, scapulars, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts plain dark olive-green; 

 under parts paler olive-green, the chin and upper part of throat suf- 

 fused with dull blackish; under tail -coverts yellow, with distinct mesial 

 streaks of blackish; greater wing-coverts with basal half (of exposed 

 portion) black, the terminal half bright olive-green; tertials black, 

 broadly edged and tipped with olive-green; secondaries black, with 

 terminal half or more edged with olive-green; primaries black, nar- 

 rowly edged with olive-green, and with a basal patch of bright yellow, 



^ Four specimens. ^ One specimen. 



