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24 Grinnell, a Name for the Hawaiian Linnet. [jan, 



A NAME FOR THE HAWAIIAN LINNET. 



BY J. GRINNELL. 



In the University of California Publications in Zoology, Volume 

 7, February, 1911, pages 179-195, the fact was recorded that 

 the Linnet of the Hawaiian Islands at the present time differs 

 conspicuously from the Linnet of California in that the males are 

 yellow or orange, instead of red. It was further shown that in 

 all probability the Hawaiian stock was introduced from California 

 less than forty years ago. 



While, as shown in the paper cited, I recognize the fact that 

 occasional examples from different parts of the range of Carpodacus 

 frontalis show the same characters as the Hawaiian birds (as do 

 also cage-birds), this does not at all mean that these aberrant 

 examples are of the same immediately genetic stock; in fact, 

 because of remoteness of locality, they are obviously not closely 

 related. In the former case the feature is sporadic, in the latter 

 constant and peculiar to a distinct geographic area. No matter 

 how recently this feature of the Linnet of the Hawaiian Islands 

 may have been acquired, or by what one of various complex pro- 

 cesses, the apparent fact remains: the peculiarity of the present 

 day Hawaiian Linnet is specific. To meet the requirement of 

 systematic zoology, a name should therefore be provided for it, 

 which I herewith do: 



Carpodacus mutans, new species. 



Hawaiian Linnet, 



Type, male adult; no. 12611, Univ. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.; Haiku, 

 Maui, Hawaiian Territory; Februarj^ 22, 1910; collected by Annie M. 

 Alexander; orig. no. 465, A. M. A. 



Diagnosis. — Closely similar to Carpodacus frontalis as occurring in the 

 San Francisco Bay region of California; but crimson areas in males of 

 frontalis, yellow or orange in males of mutans. 



Description of Type. — Rump, continuous frontal, supra-ocular and 

 supra-auricular area, throat, malar region and chest, deep chrome; top 

 of head, nape and breast washed with same; on forehead the color intensi- 



