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Subfamily FRINGILLINAE. Finches. 



Genus FRINGILLA Linnaeus. 



Fringilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



• Fringflla montifringilla Linnaeus. Brambling. [514.1.] 



Fringilla Montifringilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 179. 

 (in Europa = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Subarctic regions of northern Scandinavia, northern 

 Russia, and northern Asia. Winters in central and southern Europe, the 

 British Isles, and northern Asia. Accidental on St. Paul Island, Pribilof 

 Islands, Alaska (Northeast Point, October 25, 1914) .i 



Subfamily CARDUELINAE. Purple Finches, Goldfinches, and Allies. 



Genus COCCOTHRAUSTES Brisson. 



Coccothraustes Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, 36; III, 218. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Coccothraustes Brisson = Loxia Coccothraustes Linnaeus. 



* Coccothraustes coccothraustes japonicus Temminck and Schlegel. Jap- 



anese Hawfinch. [514.2.] 



Coccothraustes vxilgaris japonicus Temminck and Schlegel, in Siebold, 

 Fauna Japonica, Aves, 90 (pi. 51), 1850 [1848]. (Japan.) 



Range. — -Breeds in eastern Siberia, Japan, and probably Manchuria, 

 Chosen [Korea], and northern China. Winters south to southern China. Ac- 

 cidental on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska (November 1, 1911). ^ 

 [Closely allied races occur in Em-ope, northern Africa, and northern India.] 



Genus HESPERIPHONA Bonaparte. 



Hesperiphona Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, I, sig. 64, Aug. 30, 1850 

 [Feb. 3, 1851], 505. Type, by orig. desig., Fringilla vcspertina W. 

 Cooper. 



Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina (Cooper). Eastern Evening Grosbeak. 



[514.] 



Fringilla vespertina W. Cooper, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., I, 1825, 220. 

 (Near Lake Superior, Sault Ste. Marie [Michigan].) 



1 Hanna, Auk, XXXIII, 1916, 402. 



2 Evermann, Auk, XXX, 1913, 15. 



