BIRDS — FR1NGILLIDAE CHRYSOMITRIS MAGELLANICUS. 
419 
B. Astrag alinus , Cabanis. — Wings black ; the bases of the primaries and edgings white ; 
tail white, blotched. No black on throat. 
Body entirely yellow above ; lesser wing coverts white C. tristis. 
Body olivaceous above ; lesser wing coverts black C. psaltria. 
Body entirely black above ; lesser wing coverts black. Tail with white spots.. C mexicanus. 
Similar to the last ; the tail without white spots..... 0. columbianus. 
" C. Wings black, edged with yellow, but none at the base of the quills. Tail spot white.. 
Crown, chin, and throat black .0. laiorencii. 
No black on the head. 
D. Feathers of the head and body all streaked with brown, 
feathers yellow 
of the quills and tail 
C. pinus. 
Comparative measurements of species. 
Chrysomitris magellanicuE 
Clirysomitris notatus.... 
Chrysomitris stanleyi 
Chrysomilris yarrelli. 
Clirysomitris tristis. .. 
do 
Clirysomitris psaltria. 
Clirysomitris mexicanus. 
Guatemala 
California . 
ndependence, Mo, 
Carlisle, Pa. 
Cosumnes river. . 
California 
New Leon, Mex . 
do 
Coaliuila 
Clirysomitris columbianus 
Chrysomitris lawrencii. . 
South America. . 
Cosumnes river. 
California 
Carlisle, Pa 
..In. 
Sinii.iliinuo kiy.W.T 
4.22 
4.70 
4.30 
5.25 
4.02 
4.20 
4.00 
4.00 
3.90 
4.00 
4.37 
4.40 
7.50 
G.75 
9.00 
8.50 
0.54 
0.48 
0.64 
0.64 
0.50 
0.52 
0.48 
0.49 
0.48 
0.46 
0.50 
0.48 
0.56 
0.56 
0.56 
0.59 
0.58 
0.72 
0.54 
0.58 
0.50 
0.52 
0.21 
0.20 
0.18 
0.20 
0.18 
0.18 
0.20 
0.17 
0.36 
0.34 
0.38 
0.32 
0.32 
0.4Q 
0.40 
0.42 
Aloiur 
gape. 
0.44 
0.42 
0.40 
0.34 
0.36 
0.33 
Skin ., 
Fresh 
Skin . 
Fresh , 
Skin 
Fresh 
Fresh 
Skin . 
CHRYSOMITRIS MAGELLANICUS, Bonap. 
Black-headed Goldfinch. 
Fringilla magellanica, Vieill. Diet. XII, 1819, 168.— Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 46 ; pi. 394. 
Carduelis magellanicus, Aud. Syn. 1839, 116.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 133 ; pi. 182. 
Chrysomitris magellanica, Bonap. Consp. 1850, 516.— Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 160. 
Fringilla icterica, Licht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 26. 
" ? Fringilla campestris, Spix. Av. Bras. II, , tab. lxi, f. 3." 
Sp. Ch. — Head all round and extending below over the lower throat, wings, and tail, (except as hereafter described,) black. 
Lower part of neck, back to the rump, scapulars, and lesser wing coverts, olive green. Under surfaces generally of the body, 
rump and upper tail coverts, basal half of all the tail feathers, bases of all the wing feathers, except inner tertials and outer web 
of first primary, with ends of greater coverts and edges of tertials towards the end, yellow, tinged with greenish below. 
Bastard feathers black. Length, 4.50 ; wing, 2.75 ; tail, 2. 
Hab. — South America. Accidental in the United States, (Kentucky. ) 
