162 MNIOTILTIDA. 
M. Boucard at Playa Vicente, and described by Mr. Sclater in one of his lists of 
Mexican birds*. Since then a few specimens have been obtained from the eastern 
parts of Southern Mexico, where Prof. Sumichrast tells us it is an inhabitant of the hot 
region and the warmer parts of the temperate region, he himself having obtained it at 
Potrero, near Cordova, at an elevation of nearly 2000 feet above the sea. We have 
lately received a specimen from Northern Yucatan, showing a considerable extension 
of its range to the eastward. In Guatemala it appears to be as rare a bird as it is in 
Mexico, but few examples of it having come under our notice. These all came from 
different parts of Vera Paz, one of them from the vicinity of Cahabon, less than 
1000 feet above the sea. Mr. Sarg also informs us that it has been obtained near 
Tactic, a village lying at an elevation of about 4500 feet. We never actually observed 
the bird ourselves; and no account of its habits has been published. 
—Subfam. SETOPHAGINA™. 
CARDELLINA. 
Cardellina, DuBus, Esq. Orn. t. 25 (1850?). (Type C. amicta, DuBus, = Muscicapa rubrifrons, 
Giraud.) 
If we exclude the two species C. rubra and C. versicolor from the genus Cardellina, 
in which they have usually been placed, a single species, C. rubrifrons, remains as its 
sole representative. This is a peculiar bird, with a strong almost Parine bill, the 
culmen of which is curved throughout. The rictal bristles are well developed, reaching 
beyond the nostrils. The wings are long and pointed, the second, third, and fourth 
quills being nearly equal and longest. The tail is nearly even, and shorter than the 
wings. The feet are small, and the tarsi short. Compared with Ergaticus, the bill is 
much stouter, the wings longer, and the tarsi shorter; and besides these characters 
there is a marked difference in the style of the coloration of the plumage. The range 
of the genus is that of its single species given below. 
1. Cardellina rubrifrons. 
Muscicapa rubrifrons, Giraud, Sixteen B. Texas, t. 7. f. 17. 
Cardellina rubrifrons, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1855, p. 667; 1858, p. 299°; 1859, p. 374°; Baird, Rev. Am. 
B. i. p. 264°; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 192°; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 8317. 
Basileuterus rubrifrons, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 863 *. 
Cardellina amicta, DuBus, Esq. Orn. t. 25°; Bp. Consp. i. p. 312”. 
Parus erythropis, Licht., fide Bp. Consp. i. p. 312”. 
Supra cinerea; nucha, uropygio et corpore subtus albis, illo vix rosaceo tincto; pileo postico et capitis lateribus 
posticis nigris ; fronte, loris, ciliis et gula tota late rosaceo-rubris, alis albo unifasciatis; rostro fusco, 
pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 5:0, ale 2°7, caudex 2:3, tarsi 0°75, rostri a rictu 0°55. 
* Anted, p. 157. 
