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FEMALE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. 
FRINGILLA TRISTIS. 
Plate VI. Fig. 4. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology , I, p. 20, PI. 1, fig. 2, for the Male, and history. 
Fringilla tristis, Linn. Syst. I, p. 320, Sp. 12, Male. Gmel. Syst. I, p. 907, Sp. 12. 
Lath. Ind. p. 452, Sp. 64. Yieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. XII, p. 167. 
Fringilla spinas, var. y Gmel. Syst. I, p. 914, Sp. 25, Male, in winter plumage. 
Carduelis americana , Buiss. Av. Ill, p. 64, Sp. 3. 
Carduelis americanus, the American Goldfinch , Catesby, Carolina , I, p. 43, PI. 43, Male 
in spring dress. Barth. Trav. p. 291. 
Chardonneret jaune, Buff. Ois. IY, p. 212. 
Chardonneret da Canada , Buff. PI. Enl. 202, fig. 2, Male, in spring dress. 
Tarin de la Nouvelle Fork, Buff. Ois. IY, p. 231. PI. Enl. 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 I, p. 288, Sp. 57. Id. 1st Suppl. p. 166. 
Siskin, var. b, Lath. Syn. II, Part I, p. 291, Sp. 58, Male changing. 
Philadelphia Museum, No. 6344, Male; No. 6345, Female; No. 6346, Albino. 
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 immediately 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 season. The very great dissimi¬ 
larity between the sexes in their spring dress, will justify the re¬ 
appearance of a bird already given by Wilson, more especially as 
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