The A.O.U. Checklist (1983) listed the Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria) as casual or accidental in southwestern British Columbia, eastern Oregon, and southern Wyoming. It was not listed for Idaho by Burleigh (1972) and was reported without details as a rare spring migrant at the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge, southern Idaho, by Larrison et al. (1967). Before 1988 there were only eight Lesser Goldfinch records for Idaho, all from southern counties (Bannock, Canyon, Elmore, Minidoka, and Twin Falls). For a review of seven of these records see Taylor and Trost (1987). An additional record not reported by Taylor and Trost is of one observed by Jeff Marks on Simco Road 0.2 mi. north of Highway 67, in Elmore County on 18 September 1982 (pers. comm.).