Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 2. Male.
Third quill longest, second and fourth equal; tail long, slightly
emarginate, and a little rounded. Male with the forehead and a band
over the eye, proceeding down the neck, crimson; throat, fore part of
breast and sides, with the rump, rich carmine, the latter paler; upper
parts greyish-brown, the head, hind neck, and fore part of back,
tinged with crimson; feathers of wings and tail dusky, edged with
brownish-grey; hind part of breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts
yellowish-white, streaked with dusky. Female with the feathers of the
upper parts brown, edged with brownish-white; the lower parts
brownish-white, streaked with brown.
_Male_, 6-1/4, wing, 3-1/2.
Bases of Rocky Mountains. Rare. Migratory.
Fringilla frontalis, Say, Long's Exped. v. ii. p. 40.
Crimson-necked Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Bonap. Amer.
Orn. v. i. pl. 1.
Crimson-fronted Bullfinch, Pyrrhula frontalis, Nutt. Man. v.
i. p. 534.
Crimson-necked Finch, Fringilla frontalis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
v. p. 230.