114 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ASTRAGALINUS PSALTRIA PSALTRIA (Say). 

 ARKANSAS GOLDFINCH. 



Adult male.— Vi\eam glossy black; auricular region, hindneck, 

 back, scapulars, and rump, olive-green; wings black, with a large white 

 patch at base of primaries; greater wing-coverts tipped with white or 

 pale grayish; primaries narrowly and tertials broadly (in fresh plum- 

 age) edged with the same; upper, tail-coverts black, margined with 

 olive-green; tail, blackish, with inner webs of several outermost rec- 

 trices mostly white (tips blackish); under parts light yellow (canary 

 yellow), paler onunder tail-coverts, tinged with olive-greenish laterally; 

 bill, horn color, darker at tip; legs and feet brownish; length (skins), 

 97.28-106.43 (101.85); wing, 62.23-64.77 (64.01); tail, 38.61-40.89 

 (40.13); exposed culmen, 89.8-9.91 (9.65); depth of bill at base, 7.11- 

 7.37(7.24); tarsus, 12.19-12.95(12.70); middle toe, 9.91-10.16(10.03).' 

 Adult female. — Above, including pileum, olive-greenish, the pileum 

 sometimes indistinctly streaked with dusky; wings as in adult male, but 

 general color grayish dusky instead of black, and white patch at base 

 of primaries smaller, sometimes obsolete; tail with the white on inner 

 webs of exterior rectrices restricted to a squarish spot in middle por- 

 tion; under parts, light olive-yellow; length (skins), 96.77-107.44 

 (100.33); wing, 60.71-63.25 (62.23); tail, 37.59-41.66(39.37); exposed 

 culmen, 8.89-9.91 (9.40); tarsus, 12.45-12.95 (12.70); middle toe, 9.14- 

 10.41 (9.91).' 



Young. — Similar to adult female, but tinged with buffy brownish 

 above, the lighter wing-markings more or less buffy, and the under 

 parts paler and duller, or more buffy, yellow. 



Western United States, from coast of California to eastern base of 

 Rocky Mountains; north to northern California (Shasta County), 

 southern Idaho (Boise), Utah (Wahsatch and Uintah mountains), and 

 Colorado; south, in winter at least, to southern Lower California (Vic- 

 toria Mountains) and southern New Mexico and Arizona; breeding 

 south to San Pedro Martir Mountains, northern Lower California. 



Fringillapsaltria Say, Long's Exped. Eocky Mts., ii, 1823, 40 (Arkansas Eiver). — 

 BoNAPAKTE, AiQ. Orn., i, 1825, 54, pi. 6, fig. 3; Ann. Lye. N. Y., 1828, 111.— 

 NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, i, 1832, 510. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 

 1839, 85, pi. 394. 



Cardiielis psaltria Jakdinb, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., iii, 1832, 311, pi. 6, fig. 3. — 

 Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 117; Birds Am., oct. ed., iii, 1841, 134, pi. 183. — 

 Heermann, Bep. Pacific R. E. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 50 (California). 



Chrysomitris psaltria Bonaparte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 33. — Gambel, Journ. 

 Ac. 'Sut. Sci. Phila., 2d ser., i, 1847, 52 (California). — Newberry, Eep. Pacific 

 E. E. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 87 (California) . — Baird, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 422 (California) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 314.— Xantus, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 191 (Fort Tejon, California). — Kenneely, Eep. 



' Seven specimens. 



