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Subgenus BURRICA Ridgway. 



Burrica Ridgway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 390. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Fringilla mexicana Mullbr. 



Caipodacus mexic^us (Muller). 



Range. — Western United States south to southern border of the 

 tableland of Mexico. 



a. [Caipodacus mezicanus mezicanus. Extralimital.] 



b. Carpodacus me:dcanus frontalis (Say). House Finch. [519.] 



Fringilla frontalis Say, in Long's Exped., II, 1823, 40 (note). (Near 

 Pueblo, Colorado.) 



Range. — Upper and Lower Sonoran zones from Oregon, Idaho, and south- 

 eastern Wyoming south to Lower California (northern half), Sonora, northern 

 Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, and east to the edge of the Plains 

 (western Kansas and middle Texas). 



c. Carpodacus mezicanus rubeirimus Ridgway. San Lucas House Finch. 



[5196.] 



Carpodacus frontalis ruberrimus Ridgway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 391 

 (note). (La Paz, Lower California.) 



Range. — Southern half of Lower California. 



d. Carpodacus mezicanus dementis Mearns. San Clemente House Finch. 



[519c.] 



Carpodacus dementis Mearns, Auk, XV, July, 1898, 258. (San Clemente 

 Island, California.) 



Range. — Santa Barbara Islands, California, and Coronados, Todos Santos, 

 and Cerros islands. Lower California. 



Carpodacus Smplus Ridgway. Guadalupe House Finch. [520.] 



Carpodacus amplus Ridgway, Bull. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., II, No. 2, 

 April, 1876, 187. (Guadalupe Island, Lower California.) 



Range. — Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 



Carpodacus mcgregori Anthony. McGregor's House Finch. [520.1.] 



Carpodacus mcgregori Anthony, Auk, XIV, Af 

 Benito Island, Lower California.) 



Range. — San Benito Island, Lower California. 



Carpodacus mcgregori Anthony, Auk, XIV, April, 1897, 165. (San 

 Benito Island, Lower California.) 



