460 NORTH AMEIilCAN lUKDS. 



Purple tints of a diukcr purplish-rose ciist ; first (juill siiorter tli.in 

 the fourth. Ilah. Pacitie Provinre of North AiinMii;i \nv. r a I i'/d r iti ri$s. 

 B. Culmen inueh curvcl. Tail ami wiiij,' feathers edgt'd witli grayisli in the 



male. 



.'?. C. frontalis. ^. A frontal and supereiliary hand of erinison ; a 

 patfh of same on the luinj). j'ijd .inother on tlie throat and jugu'uuj ; ab- 

 domen an<l erissum stieaked with dusky. 



^. Red restricted to the pojtions mentioned above. 



Red of an intcn- rarmiiu tint, sharply dctinnl, and strictly 

 restricted within the limits indicated. Ilnh. IMateau .'Mexico 



var. // <(' in o r r ho ns } 

 Red of a lighter carmine, and with a greater or less tendency 

 to escape its boundaries. Ihth. Middle Province of the l'nite<l 



States \i\v. frouta lis. 



<y. Red not restricted, but spread over the crown, tingcirj the 

 back and other portions, excepting wings and tail. 



Red tint varvin? from scarlet to wine-red. Ilab. Pacific 

 Province of United Stati-s, including the peninsula of Lower 

 California var. rhodocolpus. 



Carpodacus cassini, Baird. 



CASSIN'S FtrBFLE FINCH. 



Carpodacus mssini, Hviitn, Pr, A. X. S. Philad. VII, .Tunc, 1854, 110 ; Binls, X. Am. 1858, 

 414, pi. xxvii, f. 1. — Loitn, Pr. K. A. Inst, iv, l.s«)4, 11I> (IJr. Col. iMtwfcn Rocky 

 Mts. and Cascades). — Kennkiilv, P. R. R. X, pi. xxvii, f. 1. — Cooi-ek, Orn. Cal. I, 

 155. 



Sp. Cmau. Larger than C. pnrpurens. Rill, .'>."> of an inch above. Second and third 

 quills longest ; first longer than fourth. Male. Above pale grayish-brown, th«' feathers 

 streaked with darker brown, and with only an occasional gloss of reddish, I'xcept on the 

 crown, which is uniform deep crimson, antl on the rump. Sides of tl.'i- head and neck, 

 throat, and upi)er pait of breast with rumj), pale rose-color : rest of under parts white, 

 very faintly and sparsely streaked with brown. Female without any red. and streaked on 

 the head and under parts with brown. Length, (J.oO; wing, .{.OO; tail. 2.<)(>. 



Hab. Mountainous regions of Middle Province of Unite*! States, from Rocky Moun- 

 tains to Sierra Nevada. British Columl>ia (Lohu). City of Mexico (Sclatkk & Salvin, 

 1869, 3G2). Breeds in pine region of Mt. Orizaba. 



This species, thouirh somewhat resembling C. purpinrus, may he easily 

 distinguished from it by the streake<l lower tail-eoverts (of both sexes), and 

 by the pileum being much more intensely red than any other portion in 

 the male. Tlie female resembles more in markings that of fivrifrt/is, but 

 has an entirely different shajwd bill, and is much larger ; tlie streaks above 

 very conspicuous, instead of nearly obsolete. The side of the head lacks 

 the conspicuous light and dark longitudinal areas observable in ^^/r/'^)//?r?^5. 



The young of both se.xes resemble the adult female, but the streaks are 



1 Carpodacus frontalis, var. luemorrhous, Carjfodacus hwuiorrlwus, Sclateij, P. Z. S. 185G, 

 304. {Fringilla hceiaorrhous, Licht, Vcrz. 1831.) 



