CRIMSON-FRONTED PURPLE-FINCH. 
Erythrospiza FRNTALIS, tSay. 
PLATE CXCVIL— Male. 
This species was first described under the name of Fringilla frontalis, by 
Mr. Thomas Say, who discovered it in the course of Long’s Expedition to 
the Rocky Mountains. It was afterwards figured and described in the con- 
tinuation of Wilson’s American Ornithology, by the Prince of Musignano, 
who then considered it as belonging to the genus Pyrrhula, but who has 
since placed it in a small group, to which he gave the generic appellation of 
Erythrospiza. It is very closely allied, not only in colour, but in size and 
form, to the Purple Finch, Erythrospiza purpurea , with which one might 
at first sight readily confound it, but from which it differs in having the bill 
somewhat more bulging, with convex outlines, and in several other cha- 
racters, such as the more elongated and less emarginate tail. For the 
specimen from which the figure has been taken I am indebted to Mr. 
Gould of London. It is reported to be from California. I have not met 
with this species, and, in as far as I know, its habits have not been described. 
Male, 6i, wing, 
Bases of the Rocky Mountains. Rare.- Migratory. 
Fringilla. frontalis, Say, Long’s Exped., vol. ii. p. 40. 
Crimson-necked Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. i. pi. 1. 
Crimson-fronted Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 534. 
Crimson-necked Finch, Frinyilla frontalis, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 230. 
Adult Male. 
Bill shortish, robust, bulging, conical, pointed ; upper mandible with the 
dorsal outline a little convex, the back and sides rounded, the edges direct, 
overlapping, slightly arched, with a faint sinus, and a little deflected at the 
base ; lower mandible with the angle short and wide, the dorsal line 
ascending and very slightly convex, the back and sides convex, the edges 
sharp and inflected. Nostrils basal, roundish, open, partially concealed by 
the feathers. 
Head rather large, broadly ovate ; neck short ; body full. Feet of mode- 
rate size ; tarsus slender, compressed, covered anteriorly with seven large 
scutella, of which the upper are rather indistinct, laterally with two long 
