BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 117 



A.[siraga}mus'] i>. [saliria} arizonse CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 355. 



Splnus paaliria arizonx Stejnegbr, Auk, i, Oct., 1884, 362. — American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 530a.— Emerson, Zoe, i, 1890, 44 

 (Hayward's, Alameda Co., California, 1 spec. Jan. 10).— Attwater, Auk, 

 ix, 1892, 337 (San Antonio, Texas, winter) . — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 

 7, 1893,85 (lower Santa Clara Valley, Utah, breeding).— CooKB, Birds Colo- 

 rado, 1897, 99 (summer resid., breeding from plains to 6,0C0 ft.) . 



S-ipiims} psaltria arizome Eidgwa\-, Man. I\. Am. Birds, 1887, 399. 



lCIiri;somHris psaltria.} Subsp. a. Chrysomitris arizonx Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus.,xii, 1888, 206. 



ASTRAGALINUS PSALTRIA MEXICANUS (Swainson) 

 MEXICAN GOLBFIlfOH. 



Adult male. — Upper parts, including whole auricular region and sides 

 of neck, uniform glossy black; otherwise exactly like adult males of 

 A. p. psaltria and A.j)- arizonce; length (skins), 97.79-109.22 (104.66); 

 wing, 61.98-68.68 (64.77); tail, 38.10-44.45 (41.16); exposed culmen, 

 9.40-10.67 (9.91); depth of bill at base, 7.11; tarsus, 11.94-13.21 (12.70); 

 middle toe, 9.40-10.41 (9.91).' 



Adult female. — Not distinguishable from females of A. p. psaltria 

 and J..^. arizonm; length (skins), 101.85-106.43 (104.14); wing, 60.96- 

 65.53 (63.50); tail, 38.10-42.93 (39.88); exposed culmen, 8.89-10.16 

 (9.65); tarsus, 12.45-13.21 (12.70); middle toe, 9.91-10.41 (10.16).^ 



Young. — Not appreciablj' different in plumage from those of A. 2^- 

 psaltria and A. p. arizQiice. 



Mexico in general, except extreme southern and northwestern por- 

 tions (States of Chiapas, Yucatan, Sonora, etc.); southern Texas (north 

 to Kinney, Mason, Eastland, and Bexar counties); accidental in Colo- 

 rado (Denver). 



(?) [Fringilla] caJo/oZ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 914 (based on" Ca/oior' Buffon.) 

 Carduelis mexicana Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s.,i, 1827, 435 (Real del Monte, 



Hidalgo, Mexico). — Wagler, Isis, 1831, 525. 

 Chrysomitris mexicana'BotsAFA-R'iB, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 33. — Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 303 (Cordova, Vera Cruz) ; 1858, 303 (Oaxaca); 1859, 

 265 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz) , 380 (Totontepec, Oaxaca) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 124, 

 part (Mexico). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 423, part (Nueva 

 Agua, Coahuila; Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon; Parras) ; ed. 1860 ("Birds 

 N. Am."), atlas, pi. 14, fig. 1; Rep. U. S. Hex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 

 14, pi. 16, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 315, part.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1865, 93, part (Mexico; Texas; New Mexico; "Lower Cali- 

 fornia") . — DuGEs, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato) . — Cory, Revised 

 List Birds AV. I., 1886, 35 (Cuba, fide Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 

 1866, 397).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 431, part 

 (Mexican localities and references) . — Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 -06, part (Mexican references and localities). 



^ Thirteen specimens. '■' Five specimens. 



