FRINGILLA PSALTRIA. 
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and probably is also to be found in Mexico. The 0 ®^ 
specimen brought by the party was shot on the 16tb° 
July, near Boiling Spring Creek. 
The Arkansaw siskin is four inches and a qua rt ® 
long ; the bill is yellowish, tipped with blackish ; l * 1 
feet are flesh colour ; the irides burnt umber. The W 
of the head is blue black ; the cheeks are dusky oh'^ 
ceous ; the neck above, and half its side, the back, #®. 
rump, are olivaceous, more or less intermixed "'** 
dusky and yellowish, particularly on the rump; * , 
superior tail-coverts are black, varied with olivaceo® 8 ’ 
all the under parts, from the very base of the bill * 
the under tail-coverts, inclusively, are of a pure briif® 
yellow. The wings are brownish black, the smalkj 
wing-coverts being very slightly tinged with blue, a® 
edged with olivaceous ; the greater wing-coverts ®* 
tipped with white, which forms a narrow band acrrt 
the wing; the primaries, excepting the exterior on®’ 
are slightly edged with white ; the third, fourth, fin®' 
sixth, and seventh, are white towards the base, so as 
exhibit a white spot beyond the wing-coverts ; the n r 
four primaries are nearly equal in length, the fifth J® 
quarter of an inch shorter ; the secondaries are bro»|W 
margined with white exteriorly, towards their t*P s ’ 
The tail is slightly emarginated, the feathers be 1 ®* 
blackish, slightly edged with dull whitish; the tln' c ( . 
exterior ones are widely pure white on the middle ® 
their inner webs. 
The specimen we have just described is a m®*| 
evidently in perfect plumage ; the female, and state # 
imperfect plumage, are unknown; but, without risk 1 ®' 
any great deviation from the truth, we may state, l’ 1 ' 0 ^ 
analogy, that the young resemble the female, wh ll , s 
must be destitute of the black cap, and have the coin® 
less vivid and less pure. 
The Arkansaw siskin certainly resembles the A 1 ® 
rican goldfinch in its winter dress ; but a still m° 
striking similarity exists in some other birds, such 
the European siskin, {Fringilla spinus,) and the ^ 
varcz, ( Fringilla magellanic'a,Y ieifl.) of South Amen 1 ’ 
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