Plate CCCXCIV. Fig. 2. Male.
Bill moderately stout; first and second quills equal and longest. Male
with the head and throat black, back yellowish-green, rump and lower
parts greenish-yellow; wings black, with two bands of yellowish-green,
terminating the first row of small coverts, and the secondary coverts;
a conspicuous band of yellow on the basal portion of all the quills,
most of which are margined with the same toward the end; tail yellow,
with the terminal half black.
_Male_, 4-3/4, wing 2-10/12.
Five seen in winter at Henderson in Kentucky, of which I procured two.
Black-headed Siskin, Fringilla magellanica, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
v. p. 46.