Plate CCCCXXXIII. Fig. 4. Male. Fig. 5. Female.
Bill very thick; second quill longest, third slightly longer than
first. Male with the upper part of the head black, the back and
scapulars yellowish-green, the hind neck and rump yellow; the wings
and tail brownish-black; the former, when extended, crossed by two
bands, one greenish-yellow, tipping the first row of small coverts,
the other bright yellow and broad, on the base of the primary and
secondary quills; tail also yellow in its basal half; lower parts
bright yellow. Female with the upper parts yellowish-green, the lower
dull greenish-yellow. This species, which has the bill thicker than
any other here described, although it is otherwise inferior in size,
not having been found by me any where noticed, I propose to honour
with the name of my excellent friend Mr Yarrell. In my ornithological
biography it is described as the Mexican Goldfinch, but that species
has the back black, and the bases of the quills and tail-feathers
white.
_Male_, 4, wing, 2-1/2.
Upper California.
Mexican Goldfinch, Fringilla Mexicana, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 282.