140 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MLTSEUM. 



Carpadacus farniUaris McCall, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1852, 61 (Santa 

 Fe, New Mexico; coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — Baird, in Stansbury's 

 Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, .331 (New Mexico).— Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat, 

 Sci. Phila., 2d ser., ii, 1852, 267 (California); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 

 pt. i, 1859, 50 (California; New Mexico). — Woodhouse, in Sitgreaves' Expl. 

 Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 88 (Santa Fe; California) .—Cassix, lUustr. Birds 

 Cal., Tex., etc., 1854, 73, pi. 13. 



Carpodacus rhodocolpm (not of Cabanis) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 

 304 (crit.); 1857, 127 (San Jose, California).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1879, 391 (Calaveras Connty, California). 



Carpodacus frontalis var. rhodocolpns Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., v, Jan., 1873, 39, 

 part (California). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, 468, part, pi. 21, fig. 9 (California).— Cooper, Am. Nat., 1876, 91, in 

 text. 



[^Carpodacus froutalis] b. rhodocolpns Coues, Birds N. W.,1874, 108, part (in syn- 

 onymy ) . 



Carpodacus frontalis, y. rhodocoljms Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i. Mar. 21, 

 1879, 413 (centr. California). 



Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpm Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 176, 216, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 170a, part.— Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 197, part.— Belding, Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus.,v, 1883, 531 (Cerros 

 I., Lower California). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 519o, jjart. — Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 181 (Ventura Co., California). — 

 Emerson, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci., no. 7, 1887, 422, 428 (Volcano Mountains and 

 Poway, San Diego Co., California). 



C.[arpodacns'\ f.[ro)ifalis] rhodocolpns Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 

 348, part. 



Carpodacus californicus (not of Baird) Coues, Ibis, 1865, 164, in text (Fott AVhip- 

 ple, Arizona). 



Carpodacus purpureus \3iV. californicus Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 

 37 (descr. nest and eggs). 



Carpodacus me.vicanus (nut Frivgllla mexicana Miiller) Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 422, part (Frontera, New Mexico; Monterey, 

 Nuevo Leon). 



CARPODACUS MEXICANUS CLEMENTIS Mearns. 

 SAN CLEMENTE HOUSE FINCH. 



Similar to C. m. frontalis^ but wing and tail averaging shorter, the 

 bill decidedly and feet slightly larger; coloration somewhat darker. 



Adult ^;ra/^.— Length (skins), 132.08-148.34 (140.72); wing, 74.17- 

 80.52 (77.22); tail, 53.59-61.47 (58.17); exposed culmen, 10.16-12.70 

 (11.18); depth of bill at base, 9.65-10.92 (10.16); tarsus, 17.02-19.30 

 (18.03); middle toe, 13.21-14.48 (13.97).^ 



AiMt female.— "L^no^ih (skins), 135.13-143.76 (139.95); wing, 74.17- 

 76.20 (75.44); tail, 53.34-58.42 (55.63); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.68 



1 Twenty-one specimens. 



