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LiDiiature {?) male. — Exactl}^ like the adult female in coloration. 



Young. — Similar to adult female, but streaks on lower parts nar- 

 rower and less distinct, and wing-edgings more or less ochraceous or 

 bufiy. 



Western United States (breeding in mountains), from eastern base 

 of Rock}' Mountains to Pacitic coast; north to British Columbia, south 

 over plateau region of Mexico to Vera Cruz (Mount Orizaba. Mirador, 

 etc.), San Luis Potosi (Charcas), Valle}" of Mexico, etc. 



Carpodacus purpureus (not Fringilla purpurea Linnpeus) Woodhouse, in Rep. 

 Sitgreaves' Expl. Zufii and Col. R.,1853, 88, part (New Mexico). — Allen, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,iii, 1872, 156, 162 (South Park, Colorado), 167 

 (Ogden, Utah).— Williams, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 62 (Belt Mts., 

 Montana). 



Carpodacus cass'tnii Baird, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, June, 1854, 119 (Colo- 

 rado River; U. S. Nat. iNIus. ) ; Rep. Pacitic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 414; ed. 1860 

 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 27, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 307.— 

 Kexnerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., iv, pt. vi, 1856, 10 (75 in. w. of 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico); x, pt. 1859, 27, pi. 27, fig. 1 (Pueblo Creek and 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico). — Lord, Proc. Roy. Art. Inst. Woolw.,iv, 1864, 

 119 (bet. Rocky Mts. and Cascades, Brit. Columbia). — Sclater andSALViN, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1869, 362 (City of Mexico).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 

 155.— Merriam, An. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr, for 1872 (1873), 678 

 (Yellowstone R. ,and tsnake R., Montana). — Hexsiiaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 78 (Fort (iarland, Colorado). — Riioads, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1893, 47, 63 (int. Brit. Columbia). 



{_Carpodacus'] cassinii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 128. 



Carpodacus cassini Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. , 1866, 80 (Fort Whipj^le, Arizona, 

 breeding; crit.); Check List, 1873, no. 140; 2d ed. 1882, no. 195; Birds N.W., 

 1874, 106. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 460, 

 pi. 21, figs. 4, 5.— Hexshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 

 109 (near Zuiii, New Mexico) ; Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid. , 1875, 240 (localities 

 in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico); Auk, ii, 1885, 333 (upper Pecos R., 

 New Mexico, breeding). — Ridgway, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 457 (localities 

 in Nevada and Utah; habits, descr. nest, etc.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, 

 no. 169.— Bendire, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 1877, 116 (Blue Mts., e. Oregon, 

 breeding) . — Drew, Auk, ii, 1885, 16 (Colorado). — American Ornithologist^* 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 518.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1886, 420 (Valley of Mexico; pine belt of Mount Orizaba).— Town- 

 send, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 215 (Mount Shasta, etc., n. Califor- 

 nia). — Merrill, Auk, vi, 1888, 357 (Fort Klamath, e. Oregon, resident); 

 XV, 1898, 15 (Fort Sherman, n. w. Idaho, breeding). — (?) Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 180 (Gainesville, Texas).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 412.— Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, no. 5, 1891, 102 

 (Salmon R. Mts., Idaho).— Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 34 

 (both sides Cascade Mts.).— Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 239 (San Pedro IMartir 

 Mts., Lower California, resident).— Jouy, Proc. L^. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 

 780 (Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 7,000-8,000 ft., Nov. 13).— Nehrling, 

 Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 34. — Grinnell, Pub. ii, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 

 1898, 34 (mountains of Los Angeles Co., California, breeding above 4,000 ft. ). 



{Carpodacus^ rassim Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34. 



C.[arpodaciis'] cassini Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 347. — Ridgway-, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 390. 



