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species has been found at any season is Cisco Butte, 6500 feet, Placer County, 
October 6, 1913 (Mus. Vert. Zool.). 
321 (517a) Carpodacus purpureus californicus Baird 
CALIFORNIA PurRPLE FINCH 
Synonyms—Erythrospiza purpurea; Carpodacus purpureus; Carpodacus 
californicus; Western Purple Finch. 
Status—Common resident locally of high Upper Sonoran and low Transi- 
tion zones west of the desert divide; occurs throughout the northern humid 
coast belt and along the coast ranges and lower west slopes of the Sierra Nevada 
south to the San Jacinto Mountains (J. Grinnell and Swarth, Uniy. Calif. Publ. 
Zool., x, 1913, p. 266), Palomar Mountains (McGregor, Bull. Cooper Orn. Club, 
1, 1899, p. 68) and Cuyamaca Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; more widely dis- 
tributed through the intervening valleys in winter, and even south to San 
Diego (Belding, Land Bds. Pac. Dist.; 1890, p. 131), casually to Santa Cruz 
Island (Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 128), but not east of the Sierras at any 
season. Easternmost records: at the north, Mount Lassen (Townsend, Proce. U. 
S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, p. 215) ; centrally, Mount Whitney region, casual in Octo- 
ber (Henshaw, Rep. Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 238; this occurrence verified in 
November, 1911, by Mr. Henshaw at my request from the Smithsonian records). 
322 (518) Carpodacus cassini Baird 
Cassin PurpPLe FINcH 
Status—Common resident of the Transition and Boreal zones, chiefly in 
their semi-arid portions: Warner Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; Sierra Nevada, 
chiefly along the eastern slope, from Mount Shasta (Townsend, Proce. U. S. Nat. 
Mas., x, 1887, p. 215) south to Piute Mountains, Kern County (C. H. Richard- 
son, Condor, vr, 1904, p. 136); South Yolla Bolly Mountain (Ferry, Condor, x, 
1908, p. 42; Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; White and Inyo mountains (A. K. Fisher, N. 
Amer. Fauna no. 7, 1893, p. 79) ; Mount Pinos (J. Grinnell, Auk, xx1, 1905, p. 
385) ; San Gabriel Mountains (J. Grinnell, Bds. Los Angeles Co., 1898, p. 34) ; 
San Bernardino Mountains (J. Grinnell, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., v, 1908, p. 
89); San Jacinto Mountains (J. Grinnell and Swarth, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 
x, 1913, p. 267). Sparingly in midwinter to adjacent foothills, and casually 
west to San Jose (C. Barlow, Condor, m, 1900, p. 132), and Los Angeles 
(Swarth, Condor, mr, 1901, p. 66). 
323 (519) Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis (Say) 
CALIFORNIA LINNET 
Synonyms—Erythrospiza frontalis; Carpodacus frontalis, part; Carpoda- 
cus familiaris; Carpodacus rhodocolpus; Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus, 
part; Fringilla frontalis; Carpodacus mexicanus obscurus; Carpodacus me.i- 
canus clementis, part; House Finch; Red-headed Linnet; Burion. 
Status—Abundant resident throughout the state chiefly below Transition: 
north along the humid coast belt even to Humboldt Bay (W. K. Fisher, Con- 
