Lawrence's goldfinch is a small songbird of erratic distribution that breeds in California and Baja California and winters in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Lawrence's goldfinch
The lesser goldfinch is a small songbird of the Americas. Together with its relatives the American goldfinch and Lawrence's goldfinch, it forms the New World goldfinch clade in the genus Spinus.
Image: Carduelis psaltria
Image: Carduelis psaltria female
Intermediate male; note mottled back and cap
male S. p. colombianus, Colombia