120 FINCH. 



B.— Le Tarin de la nouvelle Yorck, Buf. iv. 231. PL enl. 292. f. 1, 2. Gen. Syn. 



iii. 291. 

 New York Siskin, Arct. Zool. No. 243. 



In this the top of the head is black ; throat, round the neck, and 

 breast, yellow ; rump yellow, changing to white on the upper tail 

 coverts ; back olive-brown, edges of the feathers paler ; wings and 

 tail black ; the feathers mostly edged with white ; belly and vent 

 whitish ; legs pale. The female as the male, but less bright, and 

 wants the black on the head. 



Inhabits New York, and is probably in the winter dress. 



C. — Length four inches and a half, breadth eight and a half. 

 Plumage mostly brownish yellow above, and pale yellow beneath, 

 nearly white ; forehead mottled with black, one large spot over the 

 eye, and a dusky yellow one on the ears ; wings black, the feathers 

 edged deeply with yellowish white ; tail black, edged as the wings 

 with yellowish white, shape forked. The female paler than the male. 



This last inhabits the neighbourhood of Savannah, in Georgia. 

 Mr. Abbot informed me, that it is met with in flights of five or six in 

 winter, and feeds on the seeds of flax, alder, &c. and is called in the 

 back parts of Carolina, the Flax Bird. As this species varies much 

 at different periods of age, it is probable, that the above, recorded 

 as Varieties, may be one and the same bird at different stages of 

 perfection. 



98— MEXICAN FINCH. 



Fringilla Pinus, Pine Finch, Artier. Orn. ii. pi. 18. f. 1. 



Mexicana, Ind. Orn. i. 453. 66. Shaw's Zool. ix. 471. 



— — Cacatatotl, Ind. Orn. i. 453. 67. 



Mexican Siskin, pen. Syn. iii. 292. 59 & 60. 



LENGTH four inches, breadth eight. Bill dull horn-colour; 

 irides hazel ; head, neck, and back, dark flaxen, streaked with black ; 



