ORDER PASSERIFORMES. 321 



(northern half), Sonora, northern Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, 

 and east to the edge of the Great Phiins (western Kansas and middle Texas). 



Carpodacus mexicanus ruberrimus Ridgway, San Lucas House Finch. 

 [5196.] 



Car podacus frontalis rnherritmis Ridgway, Manual N. Amer. Birds, 1S87, 

 391 (note). (Cape St. Lucas = La Paz, Lower California.) 



Range.— Southern half of Lower California. 



Carpodacus mexicanus dementis Mearns. San Clemente House Finch. 

 [519c.] 



Carpodacus dementis Mearns, Auk, XV, No. .3, July, 189S, 258. (San 

 Clemente Island, California.) 



Range. — San Clemente, Santa Catalina, and Santa Barbara islands, 

 California, and Los Coronados Islands, Lower California. 

 [Allied races of C. mexicanus occur in Mexico.] 



Carpodacus mcgregori Anthony. McGregor's House Finch. [520.1.] 



Carpodacus mcgregori Anthony, Auk, XIV, No. 2, April, 1897, 165. (San 

 Benito Island, Lower California.) 



Range. — San Benito Island, Lower California. Casual on Cedros Island. 



Carpodacus amplus Ridgway. Guadalupe House Finch. [520.] 



Carpodacus amplus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., II, 

 No. 2, April, 1870, 187. (Guadalupe Island, Lower California.) 



Range. — ^Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



Genus SPOROPHILA Cabanis. 



Sporophila Cabanis, Archiv fiir Naturg., X, Pt. i, 1844, 291. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Spermophlla luctuosa Lafresnaye (Sharpe, 1888). 



Sporophila morelleti sharpei Lawrence. Sharpe's Seedeater. [602.] 



Spoi-ophila morelleti sharpei Lawrence, Auk, VI, No. 1, Jan., 1889, 53. 

 (Lomita, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and Nuevo Leon and Tamauli- 

 pas, Mexico. [An allied race occurs in southern Mexico.] 



Genus PINICOLA Vibillot. 



Pinicola Vieillot, Oiseaux Amer. Sept., I, 1807 [1808], iv. Type, by 



monotypy, Pinicola rubra Vieillot = Loxia enucleator Linnaeus^ 

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