ft.,
June 15 and 16, 1952; [Male] 35416 from 6 mi. N, 2 mi. W Castillon,
3750 ft., June 29, 1953, weight, 15 gms.; [Male] 32140 from 2 mi. S, 3
mi. E San Juan de Sabinas, June 22, 1952; [Male] 31547 from 16 mi. N,
14 mi. E Ocampo, May 10, 1954, weight, 16 gms.; and [Male] 31546 from
San Marcos, May 5, 1954.
The Painted Bunting is a common summer resident in Coahuila. Marsh and
Stevenson (1938:287) wrote that Painted Buntings were common in summer
in the foothills of the Sierra del Carmen, and they took a male at
Piedra Blanca on July 25 and a female at Jardin del Sur on September 1.
Amadon and Phillips (1947:580) remarked that two immature Painted
Buntings, "apparently migrants, were taken at Las Delicias on August 10
and 11." Miller, Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore (1957:339) recorded
breeding by _P. c. pallidior_ at Hipolito, 4200 feet, on July 1.
Findley saw Painted Buntings 2 mi. S and 11 mi. E Nava on June 15,
1952. Dickerman saw Painted Buntings 4 mi. N San Isidro on May 10,
1954. Hardy saw Painted Buntings at Parras on July 4, 1955.
All the University of Kansas specimens are typical of the larger
subspecies _pallidior_. The dates (May 5, 10; June 15, 16, 22, 29) on
which these specimens were collected, the sizes of the testes (9x6 mm.;
6x5 mm.; 7x3 mm.) of Nos. 32140, 31547, and 31546, respectively, and
the size of the largest ovum (2.5 mm.) of No. 32142 indicate breeding
by _P. c. pallidior_ in Coahuila.
_Carpodacus cassinii_ Baird.--Cassin's Finch is an uncommon winter
migrant in Coahuila. Miller, Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore (1957:314)
listed _C. cassinii_ from Sierra Guadalupe.
*_Carpodacus mexicanus potosinus_ Griscom.--_Specimens examined:_ total
8: [Male] 35417 from 13 mi. S, 5 mi. W Castillon, 4000 ft., June 28,
1953, testes, 6 mm., weight, 19 gms.; [Female] 35411 (skeleton only)
from Sierra del Pino (=5 mi. W, 3 mi. S Acebuches), 6200 ft., May 14,
1954; [Male] 32145 from 5 mi. N, 19 mi. W Cuatro Cienegas, 3250 ft.,
July 5, 1952; [Male] 32144 and [Female] 32147 from 3 mi. S, 3 mi. E
Bella Union, 6750 ft., June 27, 1952, [Male] gonads, 7 mm.; [Male]
32143 and [Female] 32146 from 7 mi. S, 4 mi. E Bella Union, 7200 ft.,
June 24, 1952; and [Male] 31675 from the west foot of Pico de Jimulco,
5000 ft., April 4, 1953, weight, 20 gms.
The House Finch is common in Coahuila. Miller (1955a:174) reported a
sparse population of this species in the foothills adjoining Boquillas
Canyon at 4800 feet of the Sie
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