CARPODACUS. A21 
Supra dorso medio fusco, plumis singulis obscure fusco-rosaceo limbatis, uropygio rosaceo, capite toto summo 
leete saturate rosaceo ; alis et cauda fuscis, illis obscure rosaceo marginatis, superciliis indistinctis ; genis et 
corpore subtus antico pallide rosaceis, regione parotica obscuriori, abdomine postico et crisso albidis ; 
rostro fusco, mandibula ad basin pallida, pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 6, ale 3-6, cauds 2:5, rostri a 
rictu 0°65, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. maris ex Mexico, prope urbem. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nortu America, Western United States from the eastern base of the Rocky 
Mountains to the Pacific Ocean®, Arizona+—Mexico, valley of Mexico (le 
Strange), pine-forests of the Volcan de Orizaba (Sartorius), 
Carpodacus cassini, though closely allied to C. purpureus, is generally admitted to be 
a distinct species; the head above is of a brighter crimson and in contrast with the 
colour of the back instead of being blended into it, there is a faint superciliary streak, 
and the under surface is of a pinker hue. 
We know but little of this species in Mexico, but the evidence of its occurrence there is 
unimpeachable. Three skins, two males and a female, were in Mr. le Strange’s Mexican 
collection examined by Sclater and Salvin 2, and one of these specimens is now before us. 
Again, Dr. Sartorius, long a resident at Mirador, in the State of Vera Cruz, for many years 
a correspondent with the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered it in the 
pine-forests of Orizaba in the month of June 1864, and sent specimens to Washington 3. 
In the States C. cassini appears to be abundant in the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere, 
and is described as a beautiful songster. Regarding its nest and eggs there seems to 
have been some error in Brewer’s account of them, so Dr. Coues tells us*, who adds 
that the latter are not distinguishable from those of C. purpureus, which are described 
as clear pale bluish, irregularly dotted, but chiefly in a wreath around the larger end, 
with very dark blackish brown, almost black in some instances, in others lighter. 
Dr. Coues has published a biography of this bird in ‘ Forest and Stream’ (xx. No. 22, 
p. 425; Auk, i. p. 288), a periodical we have not seen. 
2. Carpodacus frontalis. 
Fringilla frontalis, Say in Long’s Exp. ii. p. 40°? 
Carpodacus frontalis, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 465” (var. hemorrhous excepta) ; 
Coues, B. N. W. p. 107°. 
Carpodacus rhodocolpus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 166 *. 
Carpodacus frontalis, var. rhodocolpus, Belding, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 343 °. 
Capite, collo, gula, pectore, ventre antico et uropygio coccineis; pileo medio et regione parotica fuscescentibus ; 
corpore supra reliquo fusco, plumis singulis pallide fusco limbatis plerumque rosaceo lavato; ventre imo, 
crisso et hypochondriis albidis fusco striatis; alis et cauda fuscis, albido extus limbatis; rostro fusco, 
pedibus obscure corylinis. Long. tota 5:5, alee 3:0, caudee 2°5, rostri a rictu 0°5, tarsi 0°65. (Deser. maris 
ex California. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, sed colore coccineo et rosaceo absente. 
Hab. Nort America, Middle Province and Pacific Coast-region from Oregon to Cape 
St. Lucas ?,—Mexico, Guaymas (Belding *). 
It has long been a doubtful point whether the Carpodacus of the Middle Province of 
