. Bird-lore . ay 10, 1888; Huachuca Mountains, Ariz., May 11, 1903;and Los Angeles, Calif., April 26, 1901. HOUSE FINCH The House Finch, or Linnet, as it is best known in California, is a non-migratory species of the western United States, ranging north to Oregon,Idaho, and Wyoming, and south to Mexico; it is abundant east to theeastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains and less common to western Kansasand middle Texas. It has been separated into several subspecies, and theabove is the range of the most common form frontalis. The San Lucas HouseFinch, ruberrimus, occupies the southern half of L
. Bird-lore . ay 10, 1888; Huachuca Mountains, Ariz., May 11, 1903;and Los Angeles, Calif., April 26, 1901. HOUSE FINCH The House Finch, or Linnet, as it is best known in California, is a non-migratory species of the western United States, ranging north to Oregon,Idaho, and Wyoming, and south to Mexico; it is abundant east to theeastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains and less common to western Kansasand middle Texas. It has been separated into several subspecies, and theabove is the range of the most common form frontalis. The San Lucas HouseFinch, ruberrimus, occupies the southern half of Lower California, while theSan Clemente House Finch, dementis, occupies the islands off the coasts ofsouthern California and northern Lower California. Two other species of House Finch occur in Lower California. The Guada-lupe House Finch lives on the island from which it derives its name, andMcGregors House Finch occurs on San Benito Island. All these species andsubspecies of the House Finch are Notes on the Plumage of North American Sparrows TW^ENTY-SIXTH PAPERBy FRANK M. CHAPMAN (See Frontispiece Cassins Purple Finch {Carpodacus cassini, Figs, i and 2). This westernspecies resembles the Purple Finch, but is somewhat larger and has the billslightly longer and more regularly conical—that is, less bulbous at the color, the male is paler than the male of the Purple Finch, particularly onthe underparts, the back is more broadly and heavily streaked, and the redof the crown appears as a more or less well defined cap. Between the femalesof the two species the differences in plumage are less apparent, but in Cassinsthe streaks on the underparts are darker and much more distinct. The plumage changes of Cassins Finch appear to be the same as those ofthe Purple Finch. That is, the juvenal or nestling plumage resembles in pat-tern and color the succeeding or first winter plumage, in which the malecannot be surely distinguished from the female. This plumage is wo
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