118 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Chrysomitris me.ricanus Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 550 (temp, 

 region, Vera Cruz) .—Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870,- 169 (n. Mexico).— Grayson, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 282 (Tres Marias). 



[Chrysomitris] mexicanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 576. 



ICIirysomitris'] mexicana Solatek and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34, part 

 (Mexico). 



[Chrysomitris Pseudomitris ineodcanus'] \_X.\a.r. mexicanus Swains.] Ooues, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 81 (crit.; synonymy). 



[Chrysomitris psaltria.] Var. mexicana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, Oct., 1872, 183. 



Chrysomitris psaltria . . . var. mexicana Coves, Clieck List, 1874, no. 1516. 



Chrysomitris psaltria var. mexicana Eidgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 455, 

 part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 478, part, 

 pi. 22, fig. 13.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 278 (Tres 

 Marias). 



[Chrysomitris psaltria] c. mexicana CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 117, part (in 

 synonymy). 



Chrysomitris psaltria mexicana Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 313. 



[Chrysomitris mexicana] var. mexicana Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, pi. 22, fig. 12. 



A.[stragalinus] mcricanus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, July, 1851, 159 (Mexico). 



Astragalimts psaltria mexicanus CouBS, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 96; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 217.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 177, 

 229, 232; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 1826.— American Ornithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 1899, 116. — Cooke, Auk, xvi, 1899, 187 (near 

 Denver, Colorado, 1 spec, summer 1888). — Nelson, North Am. Fauna, no. 

 14, 1899, 52 (Tres Marias). 



A.[stragalinus] p. [saltria] mexicanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 355, 

 part. 



Spinus psaltria mexicanus Stejneger, Auk, i, Oct., 1884, 362. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List., 1886, no. 5306. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. 

 VaL, 1888, 183 (Mason, Texas, breeding).— Att water. Auk, viii, 1892, 337 

 (San Antonio, Texas, breeding). — Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 

 780 (Soledad, San Luis Potosi; Hacienda el Molina, Jalisco; crit). — Rich- 

 mond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 630 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas) .— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 30 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



S. [pinus] psaltria mexicana Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 399, part. 



8. [pinus] psaltria mexicanus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d. ed., 1896, 399, part. 



Spinus mexicanus Coby, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 147 (Cuba ?). 



Fringilla melanoxantha Lichtenstbin, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 2 (Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1863, 56).— Wagler, Isis, 1835, 525. 



[Chrysomitris] melanoxantha 'Licwrsssi^is, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 46. 



Fringilla texensis Giraud, Sixteen Sp. Texas Birds, 1841, pi. 5, fig. 1 (Texas; type 

 inU. S. Nat. Mus.). 



ASTRAGALINUS PSALTRIA CROCEUS (Jouy)i 

 CENTRAL AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. 



Similar to A. p. mexicanus but smaller and brighter yellow beneath, 

 the adult males with under parts rich lemon yellow instead of canary 

 or citron yellow; similar in color of lower parts to A. p. jouy i but 

 larger, and with more black on under wing-coverts and flanks. 



