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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
In winter the yellow is replaced by yellowish brown ; the black of the crown wanting ; that 
of wings and tail browner. The throat is generally yellowish ; the under parts ashy brown, 
passing behind into white. 
In No. 8339 the white on the inner edge of the tail feathers, instead of passing obliquely in a 
straight outline to the inner edge of the feather, constitutes a cpuadrate blotch in the terminal 
fourth. There is less white on the wing coverts. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 

Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 

Whence obtained. 

Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
ol'wing.- 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1349 
1644 
1521 
1637 
2205 
868 
119 
1318 
7041 
6390 
4824 
4825 
5391 
4659 
5392 
8209 
4470 
6392 
6394 
8 
3 
9 
3 
9 
9 
3 
April 12, 1844 
July 18, 1844 
5.08 
4.92 
5.25 
4.92 
4.83 
4.75 
9.00 
8.75 
8.83 
8.67 
8.50 
8.50 
3.00 
2.83 
2.92 
2.75 
2.75 
May 14, 1844 
do 
July 16, 1844 
May 2, 1845 
Nov. 22, 1842 
Jan. 27, 1841 
April 12, 1844 
do 
do 
4.75 
8.42 
2.75 
3 
May 15, L857 
Oct. 23,1824 
Jan. 20, 1855 
36 
23 
64 
W. S. Wood. 
Ft. Leavenworth, K. T. 
Lt. Couch 
Independence, Mo 
June 6, 1857 
W. M. Magravv. .. 
Dr. Cooper... 
Mr. De Vesey. 
Dr. Hayden.. 
5.25 
8.75 
3.00 
Iris, bill, and feet dark brown. 
3 
3 
3 
3 
Running Water, Neb . . 
May 14,1856 
May 16, 1856 
June 20, 1856 
June 12, 1856 
Lt. Warren 
5.00 
4.75 
4.75 
8.50 
8.75 
2.87 
3.25 
2.50 
Fort Lookout, Neb... 
Blackfoot country, Neb 
....do 
do 
do 
4.75 
4.50 
5.00 
8.75 
8.75 
2.50 
2.87 
Sept. 8, 1857- 
W. M. Magravv... 
191 
Dr. Cooper. . . 
Lis, bill, and feet dark brown. 
Bill black, feet flesh color. 
Shoalwater Bay, K. T. 
T 
3 
Dr. Heermann 
CHRYSOMITRIS PSALTRIA., Bonap. 
Arkansas Finch. 
Fringilla psaltria, Sat, Long's Exped. R. Mts. II, 1S23, 40.— Aud. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 85 ; pi. 394. 
Fringilla (Carduelis) psaltria, Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 54 ; pi. 6, f. 3. 
Carduelis psaltria, Add. Syn. 1839, 117.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 134 ; pi. 183. 
Chrysomitris psaltria, Bp. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 516.— Gambel, Jour. A. N. S. 2d series 1, 1847, 52. (Female.) 
Sr. Ch. — Upper parts and sides of head and neck olive green. Hood, upper tail coverts, wings, and tail black. Beneath 
bright yellow. A band across the tips of the greater coverts, the ends of nearly all the quills, the outer edges of the tertiaries, 
the extreme bases of all the primaries, except the outer two, and a long rectangular patch on the inner webs of the outer three 
tail feathers near the middle, white. Female with the upper parts generally, and sides, olive green ; the wings and tail brown, 
their white marks as in the male. Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.40 ; tail, 1.85. 
Rah. — Southern Rocky mountains to the coast of California. 
• This goldfinch is more like G. tristis than any other of our species. The upper parts are, 
however, olive green, instead of yellow. The whole under parts are yellow, even including 
the under tail coverts. There is no white on the lesser wing coverts. The bill is slenderer 
and more curved. The third quill is longest ; the first, second, and fourth successively a little 
shorter. The tail is less deeply forked than in G. tristis. 
