CAEPODACUS, 421 



Supra dorso medio fusco, plumis singulis obscure fasco-rosaceo limbatis, uropygio rosaoeo, capite toto summo 

 Isete saturate rosaceo ; alis et cauda fuscis, illis obscure rosaoeo marginatis, superciliis iudistinctis ; genis et 

 corpore subtus antico pallida rosaceis, regione parotica obscuriori, abdomine postico et crisso albidis ; 

 rostro fusco, mandibula ad basin pallida, pedibus oorylinis. Long, tota 6, ate 3-6, caudse 2-5, rostri a 

 rictu 0'65, tarsi 0-7. (Descr. maris ex Mexico, prope urbem. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. NoETH America, Western United States from the eastern base of the Eocky 

 Mountains to the Pacific Ocean «, Arizona^. — Mexico, valley of Mexico {le 

 Strange^), pine-forests of the Volcan de Orizaba (Sartorius^). 



Carpodacus cassini, though closely allied to C. purpureus, is generally admitted to be 

 a distinct species ; the head above is of a brighter crimson and in contrast with the 

 colour of the back instead of being blended into it, there is a faint superciliary streak, 

 and the under surface is of a pinker hue. 



We know but little of this species in Mexico, but the evidence of its occurrence there is 

 unimpeachable. Three skins, two males and a female, were in Mr. le Strange's Mexican 

 collection examined by Sclater and Salvin ^, and one of these specimens is now before us. 

 Again, Dr. Sartorius, long a resident at Mirador, in the State of Vera Cruz, for many years 

 a correspondent with the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered it in the 

 pine-forests of Orizaba in the month of June 1864, and sent specimens to Washington ^. 



In the States C. cassini appears to be abundant in the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere, 

 and is deiscribed as a beautiful songster. Regarding its nest and eggs there seems to 

 have been some error in Brewer's account of them, so Dr. Coues tells us % who adds 

 that the latter are not distinguishable from those of C. purpureus, which are described 

 as clear pale bluish, irregularly dotted, but chiefly in a wreath around the larger end, 

 with very dark blackish brown, almost black in some instances, in others lighter. 



Dr. Coues has published a biography of this bird in ' Forest and Stream ' (xx. No. 22, 

 p. 425 ; Auk, i. p. 288), a periodical we have not seen. 



2. Carpodacus frontalis. 



Fringilla frontalis, Say in Long's Exp. ii. p. 40 ^ ? 



Carpodacus frontalis, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 465 ^ (var. hamorrhom excepta) ; 



Coues, B. N. W. p. 107 ^ 

 Carpodacus rhodocolpus. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 166 *. 

 Carpodacus frontalis, var. rhodocolpus, Belding, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 343 '. 



Capite, coUo, gula, pectore, ventre antico et uropygio cocoineis ; pUeo medio et regione parotica f usoescentibus ; 

 corpore supra reliquo fusco, plumis singulis pallide fusco limbatis plerumque rosaceo lavato ; ventre imo, 

 crisso et hypocbondriis albidis fusco striatis ; alis et cauda fuscis, albido extus limbatis ; rostro fusco, 

 pedibus obscure corylinis. Long, tota 5-5, alse 3*0, caudse 2'5, rostri a rictu 0-5, tarsi 0-65. (Descr. maris 

 ex California. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari simiUs, sed colore coccineo efc rosaceo absente. 



Hob. North America, Middle Province and Pacific Coast-region from Oregon to Cape 

 St. Lucas 2. — Mexico, Guaymas (JBelding ^). 



It has long been a doubtful point whether the Carpodacus of the Middle Province of 



