BIRDS—FRINGILLIDAE—CARPODACUS FRONTALIS. 415 
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. |Sex. | Locality. When collected. | Whence obtained. ed Collected by— Length. Stretch | Wing. 
No. | of wings.) 
a | | | | 
6420 | ¢ | Pueblo creek, N. M..| Jan. 22,1854 | Lt. Whipple ----| 48 Dr. Kennerly ---| 5.50 10, 00 |------ 
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6422 Be )| N. M-.| Nov. 15,1855 |.----. dosea=eaa= 1G. scene dO... s25c|2.324204|S=s=c—--|se ee 
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CARPODACUS FRONTALIS, Gray. 
Burion; House Finch. 
Fringilla frontalis, Say, Long’s Exped. I], 1824, 40.—(?) Aun. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 230; pl. 424. 
Pyrrhula frontalis, Bon. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 49; pl. vi. 
Erythrospiza frontalis, Bon. List, 1838.—Is. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1837, 112.—?Aup. Syn 1839, 125.—Is. Birds Amer. IL, 
1841, 175; pl. 197.—Gamsex, Jour. A. N. 8. 2d Series, I, 1847, 53. 
Fringilla (Pyrrhula) frontalis, Gampe, Pr. A. N. Sc. I, 1843, 262. 
Carpodacus frontalis, Gray, Genera, 1844—-’49.—M’Catt, Pr. A. N. Se. V, 1851, 219. 
? Carpodacus obscurus, M’Caut, Pr. A. N. Sc. V, June 1851, 220. Sante Fe. 
Carpodacus familiaris, M’Caut, Pr. A. N. Sc. VII, April 1852, 61. Santa Fe. 
Red-breasted variety. 
? Pyrrhula cruentata, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, 101. 
2 Carpodacus rhodocolpus, Can. Mus. Hein. 1851, 166.—Sciater. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 304. 
Carpodacus frontalis, Bon. & ScuLeGeL, Mon, of Loxiens, 1850, tab. xvi, f. 1.—Is. Consp. 1850, 533. 
Sp. Cu.—6426.—Bill short, much curved. Forehead for 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 parts 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, eeu euauelys streaked with light 
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 4, 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 
