314 
FEMALE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. 
duelis, having a more slender, acute, and elongated bill, than 
other Fringill(E. 
FEMALE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH — FRINGILLA TRISTIS. 
Plate VI. Fig. 4. 
Wilson’s American Ornithology, i. p. 20, pi. 1, fig. 2, for tlie male, and history 
Fringilla tristis, Linn. Syst. i. p. S20, sp. 12, male. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 907, sp. 
12. Lath. Ind. p. 452, sp. 64. Vieill. Nouv. Diet, d’ Hist. Nat. xii. p. 167. 
— Fringilla spinus, var. <y. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 914, sp. 25, male, in winter plumage, 
— Carduelis Americana, Briss. Av. iii. p. 64, sp. 3. — Carduelis Americanus, the 
American Goldfinch, Cateshy, Carolina, i. p. 43, pi. 43, male in spring dress. 
Hart. Trav. p. 291. — Chardonneret jaune. Buff. Ois. iv. p. 212 Chardonneret 
du Canada, Buff. Pi. Erd. 202, fig. 2, male, in spring dress Tarin de la Nou- 
velle York, Buff. Ois. iv. p. 231. — Pi. Enh '292, fig. 1, male changing ; fig. 2, 
male in winter dress. — Golden Finch, Penn. Arct. Zool. sp. 242. — American 
Goldfinch, Edwards, Glean, ii. p. 133, pi. 274, male and female. Lath. Syn. 
ii. part 1, p. 288, sp. 57. Id. 1st. Suppl. p. 166 Siskin, var B, Latlu Syn. 
ii. part 1, p. 291, sp. 58, male changing. — Philadelphia Museum, No. 6344, 
male ; No. 6345, female ; No. 6346, Albino. 
CARDUELIS AMERICANA.— Lmwuos,. 
Male and note, see vol. i. pp. 11 — 15. 
We have been induced, by the analogy existing between 
the preceding new species and this common bird, to figure 
them as companions on the same plate, that they may be imme- 
diately and readily compared. To give the present figure 
more interest, we have chosen the female, though we might, 
with equal propriety, have selected the male in winter plumage, 
as the latter differs but slightly from its mate during that sea- 
son. The very great dissimilarity between the sexes in their 
spring dress, will justify the reappearance of a bird already 
given by Wilson, more especially as it has, in this state, been 
mistaken for a distinct species, and most unaccountably arranged 
in the systems as a variety of the European siskin. 
The history of this bird, which so completely resembles the 
