Plate XXXIII. Male and Female.
Bill rather slender, second and third quills longest. Male rich
lemon-yellow, fading behind into yellowish-white; upper part of head,
wings, and tail black; smaller coverts yellow, quills margined, and
secondary coverts tipped with yellowish-white; inner webs of
tail-feathers in their terminal half white. Female brownish-olive
above, without black on the head; fore neck and breast greyish-yellow,
the rest of the lower parts greyish-white. Young like the female, as
is the male in winter.
_Male_, 4-1/2, 8.
Abundant in the Middle and Western Districts, during summer.
Accidental in the Southern States during winter. Columbia River and
Fur Countries. Abundant. Migratory.
American Goldfinch, Fringilla tristis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i.
p. 20.
Fringilla tristis, Bonap. Syn. p. 111.
Carduelis Americana (Edwards), American Goldfinch, Swains. &
Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 268.
Yellow Bird or American Goldfinch, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 507.
American Goldfinch, Fringilla tristis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i.
p. 172; v. v. p. 510.