NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
usually strongly suffused with brownish and broadly though no 
sharply streaked with darker; back very indistinctly streaked, th 
central portion of the feathers being less dark and the edges darke 
than in C. purpureus ; red of crown darker and that of rump muc. 
darker and duller than in C. purpureus. Adult female with uppe 
parts more uniform, and streaks on lower parts rather narrowe1 
less sharply defined, and paler than in C. purpureus. Length 6.0 
-6.50, wing (male) 3.10-3.20 (3.13), tail 2.40-2.60 (2.49). gg 
“7 < 56. Hab. Pacific coast of United States, from souther. 
California to British Columbia, breeding in mountains. 
517a. C. purpureus californicus Barri 
* California Purple Finch 
b. Lower tail-coverts with distinct streaks of dusky; depth of bill throug. 
base less than length of gonys. Adult male: Top of head bright crim 
son; back and scapulars pinkish brown, the feathers edged with ligh 
grayish and streaked medially with dusky ; rump nearly uniform du 
pinkish; throat and breast pale dull rose-pink; rest of lower part 
white, the sides scarcely tinged with pinkish, and lower tail-covert 
conspicuously streaked with dusky. Adult female: Above olive-grayisk 
streaked with dusky; sides of head nearly uniform grayish olive, finel: 
streaked with dusky; lower parts white, conspicuously streaked wit. 
dusky. Young: Similar to adult female, but streaks on lower part 
narrower and less distinct, and wing-edgings more ochraceous. Lengt. 
6.50-6.95, wing 3.60-3.95, tail 2.60-3.00. Eggs .86 x .60. Hab. Wester 
United States, north to British Columbia, east to Rocky Mountain: 
and south over highlands of Mexico. 
518. C. cassini Bairp. Cassin’s Purple Fincl 
a’. Tail not decidedly shorter than wing, not distinctly emarginated; adult male 
with wing-feathers edged with pale grayish. Nest a well-built, compac 
structure, composed of dried grass-stems, plant-fibres, etc., built in trees o 
about houses (often within deserted nests of other species). Eggs 3-6, bluis 
white, or very pale greenish blue, sparsely speckled, chiefly round larger enc 
with black. (Subgenus Burrica Rivew.') 
Adult males: Above brownish gray (this sometimes overlaid or replaced b 
a wash or suffusion of reddish), without distinct streaks on back; rum] 
forehead, superciliary stripe, malar region, chin, throat, and chest reddis 
—these reddish areas sometimes running together, the red thus coverin 
the greater extent of the plumage; rest of lower parts whitish, more o 
less extensively streaked with dark grayish brown; wings and tail dusk 
grayish brown, the feathers edged with a paler shade of the same. Adu 
females: Above entirely grayish brown, indistinctly streaked with darke: 
beneath everywhere white, broadly streaked with dark grayish brow! 
Young: Similar to adult female, but back more distinctly streake 
1 New subgenus. Type, Fringilla mexicana MULL. 
