4(50 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Purple tints of a darker purplish-rose cast ; first quill shorter than 

 the foiii-th. Hah. Pacific Pi'ovince of North America var. c a J ifo rnicus. 

 B. Culmen nnicli curved. Tail and wing feathers edged with gr.ayisli in tlie 



male. 



'.J. C. frontalis. ^. A frontal and superciUary band of crimson; a 

 patch of same on the rump, and another on the throat and jugulum ; ab- 

 domen and crissum streaked with dusky. 



(J. Red restricted to the portions mentioned above. 



Red of an intense carmine tint, sharply defined, and strictly 

 restricted within tlie hmits indicated. Hub. Plateau of Mexico 



var. hcemorrhonn.^ 

 Red of a lighter carmine, and with a greater or less tendency 

 to escape its boundaries. /Tab. Middle Province of the United 



States \av. frontalis. 



^. Red not restricted, but spread over the crown, tingeing the 

 back and other portions, excepting wings and tail. 



Red tint varying from scarlet to wine-red. Ifab. Pacific 

 Province of United States, including the penin.sula of Lower 

 California ....... var. rhodocolpus. 



Carpodacus cassini, F.aird. Z^" 



CASSIN'S PURPLE FINCH. 



Carpodacm cassini, B.-viui), Pr. A. N. S. riiil.ul. VII, .Iinns 18.11, 119 ; liiril.s, N. Am. 1858, 

 4U, pi. xxvii, f. 1. — LoKi), Pr. \i. A. lust, iv, ISiU, 119 (P.r. Col. between Rocky 

 Mts. and Cascades). — Kennekly, P. K. li. X, pi. x.wii, f. 1. — Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 

 1.55. 



Sp. Char. Larger than C. purpvreus. Bill, .5.') of an inch above. Second and third 

 quills longest ; first longer than fourth. Male. Above pale grayish-brown, the feathers 

 streaked with darker brown, and with only an occasional gloss of reddish, except on the 

 crown, which is uniform deep crimson, and on tlio rump. Sides of the head and neck, 

 throat, and upper part of breast with rump, pale rose-color : rest of under parts white, 

 very faintly and sparsely streaked with brown. Female without any red, and streaked on 

 the head and under parts with brown. Length, 6..50; wing, 3.G0; tail, 2.60. 



H.\B. Mountainous regions of Middle Province of United States, from Rocky Moun- 

 tains to Sierra Nevada. British Columbia (Lord). City of Mexico (Sclatek & Salvin, 

 1869, 362). Breeds in pine region of Mt. Orizaba. 



This species, thotigh somewhat resembling C. purpureus, may lie easily 

 distinguished from it by the streaked lower tail-coverts (of botli sexes), and 

 by tlie pileum being much more intensely red than any other portion in 

 tlie male. The female resembles more in markings that o( frontalis, but 

 lias an entirely different .sha})eil bill, and is much larger ; the streaks above 

 very conspicuous, instead of nearly obsolete. The side of the head lacks 

 the conspicuous light and dark longitndinal areas observable in purpureus. 



The young of both se.xes resemble tlie adult female, but tlie streaks are 



1 Carpodacus frontalis, var. hccmorrlums, Carpodacus tuemorrlwus, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 185C, 

 304. (Fringilla hcetnorrlwtis, Light. Verz. 1831.) 



