BIRDS—FRING1LLIDAE-CHRYSOMITRIS MEXICANUS. 
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List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Wen collected. 
Whence ob¬ 
tained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wings. 
Remarks. 
6397 
6398 
6399 
6400 
3122 
6401 
6402 
3929 
3930 
Feb. 12,1854 
Lt. Whipple... 
97 
Dr. Kennerly.. 
4 
5.50 
2 
Feb. 8,1854 
78 
74 
4 
7 
2.50 
76 
.do. 
4 
6 
2.50 
June 20, 1848 
Iris very dark, bill and feet 
flesh color, dark gray above 
Dr. Hecrmann. 
9 
Q 
J. X. de Vesey. 
i 
CHRYSOMITKIS MEXICANA, Bonap. 
Black Goldfinch; Mexican Goldfinch. 
Carduelis mexicanus, Swains. Syn. Birds Mex. Phil. Mag. 1827, 435.— Wagler, Isis, 1831, 525. 
Chrysomitris mexicanus, Bp. Consp. Av. 1850, 516. (Quotes Aud. tab. 427.) 
Jlstragalinus mexicanus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 159. 
Fringilla melanoxantha, (Liciit.) Wagi.er, Isis, 1831, 525. 
? Fringilla catotol, Gm. Sy:;t. Nat. I, 1788, 914. 
Fringilla texensis, Giraud, 16 Sp. Birds Tex. 1841 ; pi. v, f. 1. (Gives white belly.) 
Sp. Ch.—U pper parts continuously and entirely black ; the feathers of the rump white subterminally, and showing this 
through the black ; a few of the feathers with greenish yellow between the white and black ; a few, perhaps, without black 
tips. The bases of the third to seventh primaries, and the ends of the tertiaries externally white. The tail is black, except 
the outer three feathers, in which the outer webs and tips only are this color ; the rest white. Inside of wing black. Under 
parts of body pale yellow. Female with the black of the head and body replaced by olive green. Length, 4.12 inches ; wino- 
2.25; tail, 2.00. 
Hiib. —Mexican side of the valley of the Rio Grande, southward ; Copper Mines of the Gila. 
All our Chrysomitris have the concealed white on the rump, hut it is more hidden ; where 
the hlack tips are wanting, the greenish is broader, and comes to the surface. There is a little 
black on the side of the breast under the wings ; the axillaries also are mostly hlack. The 
black of the nape and neck is first greenish and then whitish within the black tip. There is 
a yellow spot below the eye. 
The bill of this species is stouter than in G. tristis, the wing shorter and more rounded, the 
tail less deeply forked. The third quill is longest; then the second and fourth; the first is 
appreciably shorter. 
The female of this species resembles very closely that of C. psaltria ; the bill is shorter and 
more obtuse, however ; the white spot at the base of the primaries more conspicuous. In the 
imperfect character of the specimens before me I am not prepared to state the differences in 
coloration, although the under parts appear of a brighter yellow. 
There is a closely allied species from South America ( C . columbianus l ) which is larger, the 
bdl especially. There is, however, no white on the tail nor on the wing, except at the base of 
the primaries. The yellow of the under parts is much deeper. 
'Chrysomitris columbianus, Baird. 
Jlstragalinus columbianus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 159. 
Chrysomitris xanthogastra, Dubus, Bull. Acad. Belg. XXII, i, 1855, 150. 
