PASSERESSYLVICOLIDAE CARDELLINA RUBRIFRONS. 211 



axillars, crissum, tibiae, outer tail feathers except at base, and a diminishing 

 space on the second and third, white. 



CARDELLINA RUBRIFRONS (Giraucl). 



Red-faced Warbler. 



Muscicapa rubrifrons, GiRAUD, Birds Texas, 1841, pi. vii, f. 1 (Nortbeast Mexico?). 

 Cardellina rubrifrons, SCLAT., Proc. Zool. Soc.. 1855, 66. Id., ib., 1858, 299 (Oaxaca). 



Id,, ib., 1859, 374 (Oaxaca). Id., Cat,, 1SG1, 37, No. 229. BD., Rev. Am. 



Birds, i, 1865. 264. 



Cardellina amiota, (" DUBUS., MSS.") BON. Consp., 1850, 312. 

 Parus erythropis, LIGHT., MSS. (Mus. Berlin). 



BAB. Mexico ; Guatemala ; Arizona. 



SP. CHAK. Male : above, grayish ash ; a nuchal patch, rump, and under parts 

 white; the latter, especially, tinged with rosy ; abroad hood of black over top of head, 

 passing clown over the ears, and leaving the forehead, lores, eyelids, and sides of neck 

 bright red; inside of wings white, which also tips the middle coverts, thus forming a 

 baud; sides of body ashy. Female somewhat duller. In fall, the white nuchal patch 

 is obscured by an ashy suffusion, and in some specimens is scarcely visible. Iris 

 black; bill black; lower mandible lighter; legs dark brown. 



Specimens from Mexico and farther south appear to be perceptibly brighter. 



Young birds in the first plumage have the ash above perceptibly tinged with 

 reddish; the red on the head in patches, and not well defined. In one specimen (No. 

 103), the greater wing coverts are tipped with white, thus forming a second wing baud. 



This is another of the species which was attributed to Texas by Griraud 

 as above cited. Its occurrence in Arizona is certainly not surprising, 

 since it is known to be a common inhabitant of the mountains of Mexico. It 

 without doubt follows the trend of the mountain ranges northward, and 



