Plate CCCC. Fig. 1. Male.
Bill moderately stout; second quill longest, third scarcely shorter.
Male with the upper part of the head black; hind neck, back, and
scapulars yellowish-green, spotted with greenish-brown; rump
greenish-yellow; upper tail-coverts dusky, margined with yellow, as on
the smaller wing-coverts; the other coverts and quills black;
secondary coverts broadly tipped with pale yellow, forming a
conspicuous band; quills margined with yellowish-white, all except the
outer three and the inner secondaries, white toward the base;
tail-feathers brownish-black, narrowly edged with whitish, and all,
except the middle and lateral with a whitish space at the base,
running out along the outer margin so as to form a conspicuous patch.
Female similar, but without the black on the head.
_Male_, 4-1/2, 8.
Eastern bases of Rocky Mountains, and Western Plains. Accidental in
Lower Louisiana. Common. Migratory.
Arkansaw Siskin, Fringilla psaltria, Say, Long's Exped. v. ii.
p. 40.
Fringilla psaltria, Bonap. Syn. p. 111.
Arkansas Siskin, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 510.
Arkansaw Siskin, Fringilla psaltria, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
85.