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FEMALE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.
FRINGILLA TRIS TIS.
Plate VI. Fig. 4.
See WILSON'S 1merican Ornithology, I, p. 20, P1. 1, fig. 2, for the Male,
and history.
Fringilla tristis, LrNN. Syst. I, p. 320, 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 Vpinws, var. Y GMEL. Syst. I, P. 914, Sp. 25, Male, in winter plumage.
Carduelis americana, BRISS. JV. III, P. 64, Sp. 3.
Carduelis americanus, the.limerican Goldfinch, CATESBY, Carolina, I, p. 43,
PI. 43, Male
in spring dress. BARTR. TraV. p. 291.
Chardonneretjaune, BUFF. Ois. IV, p. 212.
Chardonneret du Canada, BUFF. P1. Enl. 202, fig. 2, Male, in spring dress.
Tarin de la Nouvelle York, BUFF. 018. IV, P. 231. P1. Enl. 292, fig. 1, Male
changing,
fig. 2, Male in winter dress.
Golden Finch, PENN. J.rct. Zool. Sp. 242.
.8merican 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.
Philadeophia 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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