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Subgenus CARPODACUS Kaup. 



Carpodacuspurpureuspurpureus (Gmelin). Eastern Purple Finch. [517.] 



Fringilla 'purpurea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 923. Based mainly 

 on the Purple Finch Catesby, Carolina, I, 41. (in Carolina = South 

 Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Canadian and Transition zones from northwestern 

 British Columbia, northeastern Alberta, northern Ontario (Moose Factory), 

 southern Quebec (Gaspe Basin), and Newfoundland to southern Alberta, 

 North Dakota (Turtle Mountains), central Minnesota, northern Illinois, 

 Maryland (mountains), northern New Jersey, and New York (Long Island). 

 Winters from considerably north of the southern boundary of its breeding 

 range to the Gulf coast from Texas to Florida. Accidental in Colorado. 



Carpodacus purpureas califomicus Baird. California Purple Finch. [517a.] 



Carpodacus califomicus Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. 

 Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 41.3. (Pacific coast of U. S. 

 = Fort Tejon, Kern County, California.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Transition Zone from south-central British Colum- 

 bia south to the Sierra Juarez, Lower California, and east to the Cascade 

 Mountains and Sierra Nevada. In winter more widely scattered throughout 

 the breeding range and south to lat. 30° 45' in Lower California and (casually) 

 to central southern Arizona. 



Carpodacus cassini Baird. Cassin's Purple Finch. [518.] 



Carpodacus cassinii BaIrd, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, No. 3, May- 

 June, 1854, [July 3], 119. (Camp 104, Pueblo Creek, N. M. = about 10 

 miles east of Gemini Peaks, Arizona.) 



Range. — Breeds in Boreal zones of the mountains from southern British 

 Columbia, northwestern Montana, and northeastern Wyoming to northern 

 Lower California (Sierra San Pedro M^rtir), central Arizona, and northern New 

 Mexico. Winters irregularly in the lowlands of its breeding range south 

 through Arizona and over the Mexican plateau to San Luis PotosI, Mt. 

 Orizaba, and the Valley of Mexico. 



Subgenus BURRICA Ridgwat. 



BtXrrica Ridgwat, Manual N. Amer. Birds, 1887, 390. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Fringilla mexicana MIjller. 



Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (Say) . Common House Finch. [519.] 



Fringilla frontalis Say, in Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., II, 1823, 40 (note). 

 (Arkansas River near the mountains = near Pueblo, Colorado.) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Austral zones from Oregon, Idaho, and northern 

 Wyoming south through California and New Mexico to Lower California 



