BIRDS FBINGILLIDAE — CARPODACUS FRONTALIS. 



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is no red at all on the belly. The under tail coverts are white, with narrow dark streaks. 

 There are two pale bands across the wings, rather more distinct than in purpureus. The loral 

 region is grayish. 



The females of the two species are very similar, that of C. cassinii only to be readily distin- 

 guished by the larger size and larger and longer bill. The streaks on the breast appear to be 

 rather narrower and better defined. 



List of specimens. 



Catal. 

 No. 



6420 

 6421 

 C422 

 6423 

 6424 

 6425 



Sex. 



Locality. 



When collected. 



Pueblo creek, N. M.. 

 do 



Jail. 22,1854 

 do 



Alberquerque, N. M.. 



Fort Thorne, N. M 



do 



do 



Nov. 15,1855 



Whence obtained. 



Lt. Whipple 



, do.. 



do 



Dr. T. C. Henry. 



do 



do 



Orig. 

 No. 



4S 

 52 

 16 



Collected by- 



Length. 



Dr. Kenneiiy . 



do 



..do 



5.50 

 5.50 



Stretch 

 of wings. 



10.00 

 9.00 



Wing. 



CARPODACUS FRONTALIS, Gray. 



Bnrion; Honse Finch. 



rringUlafronlalis, Sat, Long's E-xped. II, 1824, 40.— (.') Ann. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 230 j pi. 424. 



Pyrrhula fronlulis, Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 4D ; pi. vi. 



Erythrospiza frontalis, Bon. List, 1838.— Ib. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1837, 112.— ?Aud. Syn 1839, 125.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 



1841, 175 ; pi. 197.— Gambel, Jour. A. N. S. 2d Series, I, 1847, 53. 

 Fringilla (Pyrrhula) frontulis, Gambel, Pr. A. N. So. I, 1843, 262. 

 Carpodaeusfronlalis, Gray, Genera, 1844-'49.— M'Gall, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, 1851, 219. 

 ? Carpodiwus oftscurus, M 'Call, Pr. A. N. Sc. V June 1851, 2 . te Fc. 



Carpodacusfamiliaris, M'Call, Pr. A. N. Sc. VI I, April 1852, 61 . Santa Fe. 



Red-breasted variety. 



7 Pyrrhula cruentala, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, 101. 



? Carpodttcus rhodocolpus, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 166. — Sclater. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 304. 



Carpodaeusfronlalis, Bon. &. Schlecel, Mon. of Loxiens, 1850, tab. xvi, f. 1. — Ib. Consp. 1850, 533. 



Sp. Cn. — 6426. — Bill sViort, much curved. Forehead fjr nearly the length of the bill, a broad superciliary stripe extending 

 to the nape, side of lower jaw, chin, throat, and upper part of the breast, crimson red ; rump, paler. Rest of upper parte with 

 sides of neck grayish brown, with an occasional gloss of red externally on the crown, and with scarcely appreciable darker 

 brown towards the centres of the feathers. Belly, under tail coverts, and sides, whitish, conspicuously streiaked with linht 

 brown ; sometimes red to the middle of the former. Length, 5.75 ; wing, 3.25 ; tail, 2.80. 



Hab. — Rocky mountains to the Pacific. 



This' species is quite remarkable for the very great variation in the shade of red in the 

 different regions of the body. Thus the specimen selected as the basis of the description (6426, 

 May i, El Paso) has this color a bright crimson red ; the rump scarcely different ; the throat 

 and breast almost as bright as the head. The lower part of the red on the breast is tinged 

 with orange — a character seen also in 6431. The red does not extend beneath the closed 

 wings, (the entire sides of body being like the belly,) and fades rather gradually into the white 

 belly ; it extends about as far as the end of the breast bone. The upper tail coverts are like the 

 back ; the back cannot at all be called streaked, the feathers being merely brown, fading very 



