128 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Carpodaeus pileatus [nomen nudum} Kennerly, Rep. Pacific E. R. Surv., iv, 

 pt. vi, 1856, 10 (75 m. w. of Fort Albuquerque, New Mexico), 11 (Pueblo 

 Creek, New Mexico). 



Carpodaeus californims (not of Baird) Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 

 107 (New Mexico). 



CARPODACUS PURPUREUS PURPUREUS (Gmelin) 

 PURPLE FINCH. 



Wing not more than 86.36 (averaging 81.79); exposed culmen not 

 more than 11.94 (averaging 10.92); under tail-coverts without streaks, 

 or else with only some of the longer feathers so marked. 



Adult male. — Pileum deep wine purple (more crimson in summer); 

 rump paler, more pinkish wine purple; back and scapulars reddish 

 brown or wine purplish, streaked with darker (feathers margined with 

 light brownish or grayish in winter) ; wings and tail dusky with light 

 brownish red or light brown edgings, the middle and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with dull wine purple or light brownish red; nasal 

 plumes and greater part of lores dull whitish; orbital and auricular 

 regions and a more or less distinct postmalar spot duskj'- brownish 

 red; rest of head, together with more anterior and lateral under parts, 

 pinkish wine purple; abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts 

 white; flanks usually more or less streaked with brown, and longer 

 under tail-coverts rarely marked with narrow mesial streaks of dusky; 

 length (skins), 133.35-149.86 (141.22); wing, 80.77-86.36 (83.31); tail, 

 54.61-60.96 (58.67); exposed culmen, 10.41-11.94 (11.18); depth of 

 bill at base, 10.16-10.67 (10.41); tarsus, 15.49-18.80 (17.78); middle 

 toe, 12.70-15.24 (13.97).' 



Ad^ilt female. — Above olive or olive-grayish (more olivaceous in 

 winter), streaked with dusky and, to a less extent, with whitish, the 

 latter mostly on median portion of pileum, hindneck, or upper back; 

 wings and tail dusky with light olive or olive-grayish edgings; a broad 

 stripe of olive on side of head, involving orbital and auricular regions, 

 and a more broken stripe or patch of the same on sides of throat; 

 supra-auricular and malar regions mostly whitish, streaked with olive; 

 under parts white (more or less tinged with bufl' in winter) broadly 

 streaked with olive, except on abdomen, anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts, the. streaks distinctly wedge-shaped or deltoid on chest, etc.; 

 length (skins), 129.54-147.32 (139.70); wing, 76.71-82.55 (80.26); 

 exposed culmen, 10.41-11.43 (10.93); depth of bill at base, 9.91-10.41 

 (10.16); tarsus, 17.27-18.80 (17.78); middle toe, 13.21-14.99 (13.97).' 



Immature (?) male. — Exactly like adult female in coloration. 



Young. — Similar to adult female, but colors duller, markings less 

 distinct, and wing-edgings more or less buflfy. 



^ Fifteen specimens. 



