44. CARPODACUS. 423 



Carpodacus frontalis, var. hsemorrhous, Midgw. Am. Journ. Sci. fy 



Arts, (3) v. p. 39 (1873). 

 Carpodacus frontalis, c. haeniorrhous, Coues, B. N.- West, p. 108 



(1874). 

 Carpodacus mexicanus, Ridgw. Proc. Biol. Soc. ii. p. Ill (1884) ; 



Salvin $■ Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 422 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, nearly uniform, with 

 dusky centres to the feathers ; lower back and rump deep crimson ; 

 wing-coverts dark brown, with sandy-buff margins, clearer isabelline 

 on the greater coverts; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark 

 brown fringed with sandy buff, more ashy on the margins of the 

 primaries and inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts brown, with ashy- 

 brown margins ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with whity brown : 

 crown of head, occiput, nape, and hind neck ashy brown ; the fore- 

 head deep crimson, extending in a streak on each side above the ear- 

 coverts ; lores, feathers round eye, ear-coverts, and sides of face ashy 

 brown ; fore part of face, cheeks, throat, and fore neck deep crimson, 

 well defined on the latter ; sides of neck and of fore neck ashy 

 brown : remainder of under surface of body ashy whitish, broadly 

 streaked with dark brown ; abdomen rather whiter and similarly 

 streaked ; sides of body and flanks sandy buff, broadly streaked with 

 dark brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts sandy buff, the latter 

 broadly streaked with dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries isabelline, with a slight reddish tinge ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner edge. Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 3*1, tail 2 - 45, tarsus 07. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, slightly mottled with dusky centres to the feathers of the 

 back ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts 

 dark brown, edged with lighter brown; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with paler brown, broader 

 on the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, edged with lighter brown ; crown of head like the 

 back, and similarly mottled ; lores ashy whitish ; ear-coverts uni- 

 form dark brown ; cheeks and under surface of body ashy whitish, 

 broadly streaked with dusky brown ; abdomen uniform ashy whitish ; 

 sides of body and flanks streaked with dusky brown like the breast ; 

 thighs whitish ; under tail-coverts fulvous, with longitudinal centres 

 of dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale tawny 

 buff; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 

 5-2 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2-9, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Mexico. 



Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll 

 Sclater Coll. 

 A. Boucard [0 1 

 Sclater Col] 



