ARKANSAS SISKIN. PINE FINCH. 511 
olive ; 3 outer tail-feathers white on the middle of the inner web, 
black at tip. 
This species, first described by Mr. Say, was met with 
in the month of July, near the base of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, south of the river Platte, and probably exists in 
Mexico. As usual, it lives in trees and bushes, sings 
sweetly, and much in the manner of the Yellow-Bird. 
The specimen was a male : the female, and any other 
vesture of plumage, are unknown. 
The Arkansa Siskin is 4| inches long. Crown black; cheeks 
dusky olive ; neck, back, and rump olivaceous, mingled with 
dusky and yellowish ; upper tail-coverts black, varied with olive. 
Beneath pure yellow. Wings brownish-black, smaller wing-coverts 
the same, but slightly tinged with blue, and edged with olive ; great- 
er wing-coverts tipt with white, forming a bar across the wing ; 3d 
to the 7th primaries white towards the base, producing a white spot 
beyond the coverts ; first 4 primaries nearly equal, 5th shorter ; the 
secondaries broadly margined with white exteriorly towards their 
tips. Tail blackish, slightly emarginated, edged with dull whitish ; 
the 3 exterior feathers pure white on the middle of their inner vanes. 
Bill yellowish, tipt with blackish. Feet flesh-color. Irids dark brown. 
PINE FINCH. 
(Fringiila pinusj Wilson, ii. p. 133. pi. 57. fig. 1. [winter plum- 
age]. Phil. Museum, No. 6577.) 
Sp. Charact. — Dark flaxen, spotted with blackish ; wings black, 
with 2 yellowish- white bars ; shafts of the quills yellow ; lateral 
tail-feathers yellow on the lower half. 
Our acquaintance with this little northern Goldfinch 
is very unsatisfactory. It visits the Middle States in 
November, frequents the shady, sheltered borders of 
creeks and rivulets, and is particularly fond of the seeds 
of the hemlock tree. Among the woods, where these 
trees abound, they assemble in flocks, and contentedly 
pass away the winter. Migrating for no other purpose but 
subsistence, their visits are necessarily desultory and 
