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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 quadrate 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 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1319 
<? 
April 12,1844 
5.08 
9.00 
3.00 
* 
1644 
$ 
July 18,1844 
.do. 
4.92 
8.75 
2.83 
1521 
6 
May 14, 1844 
5.25 
8.83 
2.92 
1637 
s 
July 16,1844 
4.92 
8.67 
2.75 
2205 
O 
4.83 
8.50 
2.75 
858 
O 
Nov. 22, 1842 
4.75 
8.50 
2.75 
] 19 
V 
3 
.do. .... 
1318 
April 12,1844 
4.75 
8.42 
2.75 
7041 
s 
May 15, 1857 
36 
W. S. Wood. 
6390 
Oct. 23, 1824 
8 
6391 
Jan. 20, 1855 
23 
8339 
Independence, Mo.... 
June 6,1857 
W. M. Magravv... 
64 
Dr. Cooper... 
5.25 
8.75 
3.00 
Iris, bill, and feet dark brown. 
5876 
4824 
s 
Running Water,Neb.. 
May 14,1856 
Lt. Warren. 
Dr. Hayden.. 
5.00 
8.50 
2.87 
Eyes blac k ?.. 
4825 
$ 
May 16,1856 
4.75 
8.75 
3.25 
5391 
r? 
4.75 
8.75 
2.50 
4659 
3 
June 12, 1856 
5392 
4.75 
8.75 
2.50 
8209 
Sept. 8, 1857 
191 
Dr. Cooper... 
4.50 
8.58 
2.87 
4470 
5.00 
8.75 
6392 
6393 
6394 
S 
6395 
3 
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CHRYSOMITRIS PSALTRIA, Bo nap. 
Arkansas Finch. 
Fringilla psaltria, Sat, Long’s Exped. R. Mts. II, 1823, 40.—Aro. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 85 ; pi. 394. 
Fringilla ( Carduelis) psaltria, Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 54 ; pi. 6, f. 3. 
Cardudis psaltria, Aun. Syn. 1839, 117.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 134 ; pi. 183. 
Chrysomitrispsaltria, Bp. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 516.— Gambel, Jour. A. N. S. 2d series 1,1847, 52. (Female.) 
Sp. Cii.—U pper 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. 
Hah. —Southern Rocky mountains to the coast of California. 
This goldfinch is more like 0. 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 hill 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 0. tristis. 
