1913] Grinnell Sivarth: Birds and Mammals of San Jacinto 2(i< 



29. The latter two were probably wanderers from a lower 

 elevation. Thus the California purple finch was found in the 

 San Jacinto mountains under very similar conditions to those 

 observed in the San Bernardino .Mountains (see Grinnell, 1908, 

 p. 88), occurring in both regions in a limited area of low Tran- 

 sition on the Pacific side of the mountains, and preferably in 

 the vicinity of streams. Nine specimens were collected (nos. 

 2636-2642, 2727. 273] I, seven from Strawberry Valley, and two 

 from Tahquitz Valley. 



Carpodacus cassini Baird 

 ( 'nssin Purple Finch 



Fairly common in Tahquitz Valley (8000 feet', and in 

 Round Valley (9000 feet), during July. A single adult male, 

 secured ;it Fuller's Mill (6000 feet), -Inly 1. was the only one 

 seen at any other point. 



In Tahquitz Valley small (locks of full-grown juvenals fre- 

 quented the grassy meadows. Twelve specimens were preserved : 

 Fuller's .Mill, one (no. 1890), lower slopes of Sau Jacinto Peak, 

 two (nos. 2081, 2082), Round Valley, three (nos. 2083, 2084. 

 2730). Tahquitz Valley, six I nos. 2726, 272s. 2729. 2732-27:34). 



Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (Say) 

 California Linnet 



A common species, encountered in some numbers at every 

 point visited, up to the lower limits of Transition. Nests with 

 eggs or young were found at Cabezon early in May, at Kenworthy 

 toward the end of May, at the mouth of Palm Canon, and ;it 

 Dos Palmos and Deep Canon, in the middle of -June, and at 

 Carnet Queen Mine at the end of dune. Where houses were 

 available the birds made use of them; thus at Kenworthy and 

 Garnet Queen Mine, nests were placed in niches about the aban- 

 doned mine buildings. At the mouth of Palm Canon, and in 

 Murray Canon they were built in the palm trees and in cactuses; 

 in Deep ('anon. May .'!(). a nest with four incubated eggs was 

 found in a cactus. 



