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GENus CARPODACUS Kavp. 
Carpodacus Kaur, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Eur. Thierw., 1829, 161. Type, 
by subs. desig., Loxia erythrina Pauuas (Gray, 1855). 
Sunacpenus CARPODACUS. 
Carpédacus purptreus (GMELIN). 
Rance.— North America from southern Canada south to the south- 
ern border of the United States. 
a. Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (GMELIN). Purple Finch. [517.] 
Fringilla purpurea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 923. (Carolina.) 
Ranece.— Eastern North America. Breeds in Canadian and Transition 
zones from central British Columbia, northeastern Alberta, northern Ontario 
(Moose Factory), central Quebec (Gaspe Basin), and Newfoundland to south- 
ern Alberta, North Dakota (Turtle Mountains), central Minnesota, northern 
Illinois, Pennsylvania (mountains), northern New Jersey, and Long Island; 
winters from considerably north of the southern boundary of its breeding 
range to the Gulf coast from Texas to Florida; accidental in Colorado. 
b. Carpodacus purpureus californicus Barrp. California Purple Finch. 
[517a.] 
Car podacus californicus Barro, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 
413. (Fort Tejon, California.) 
Rance.— Breeds in Upper Sonoran and Transition zones from southern 
British Columbia and Vancouver Island to Riverside County, California, and 
east to the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains; in winter to extreme south- 
ern California and the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. 
Carpodacus cassini Barrp. Cassin’s Purple Finch. [518.] 
Car podacus cassinit Barrp, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1854, 119 (“Camp 
104, Pueblo Creek,”’ about 10 miles east of Gemini Peaks, Arizona.) 
Rancre.— Western United States. Breeds in Boreal zones of 
mountains from southern British Columbia, northwestern Montana, 
and northeastern Wyoming to northern Lower California, central 
Arizona, and northern New Mexico; winters from central California 
and southern Arizona south over the Mexican plateau to Mt. Orizaba, 
San Luis Potosi, and the Valley of Mexico. 
