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digenous to California, but C. cardinalis has been introduced there, and is said 

 to have become established in the neighborhood of Gait and Stanhope. 



Mr. Frazar took four nests of G. c. iijncas at San Jose del Rancho in July, 

 the first on the I4th, the last on the 20th of the month. Three were in 

 bushes, the fourth in a small tree, the height above the ground varying from 

 four to ten feet. They all closely resemble nests of the eastern Cardinal. 

 The eggs, three in number in each instance, were all fresh or but slightly incu- 

 bated. They average .96 by .72 with extremes of 1.01 by .73 and .93 by .70. 

 The color and markings vary considerably with the different specimens, all of 

 which are closely matched by eggs of 0. cardinalis in my collection. In fact, 

 I cannot detect even an average dift'erence between the eggs of the two forms, 

 although Dr. Brewer, writing of those of igneus taken by Mr. Xantus, says, 

 " Their markings are larger, and more of a rusty than an ashy brown, and the 

 purple spots are fewer and less marked than in 6*. virginianus [C cardinalisy ^ 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Ridgw. 

 St. Lucas Pyrruuloxia. 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata (not Cardinalis sinuatiis Boxaparte) Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 304 (Cape St. Lucas). Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 230, 

 237, part (Cape St. Lucas). Coues, Check List, 1873, 41, no. 202, part; 

 2cl ed., 1882, 60, no. 298, part. Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Amer. Birds, II. 1874, 96, part (breeding at Cape St. Lucas; crit.). Ridg- 

 way. Nom. N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., no. 21), 1881, 27, no. 243, 

 part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 541 (crit.) Belding, Ibid. (Cape 

 Region) ; VI. 1883, 345 (Cape Region). Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, I. 1884, 343, part (Lower Calif.). A. O. U.,Check List, 1886, 

 286, no. 594, part. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XII. 1888, 158-lGO, part. 



[P tjrrjiuloxia] sinuata Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 150, 151, part (Cape St. 

 Lucas). 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Ridgway, Auk, IV. 1887, 347 (orig. descr. ; type 

 from San Jose) ; Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 606 (descr. ; S. Lower 

 Calif.) ; Birds N. and Midd. Amer., pt. I. 1901, 627, 628 (descr. ; Cape St. 

 Lucas district). A. O. U. Comm., Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 14; Check List, 

 abridged ed., 1889, and 2d. ed., 1895, no. 594 b. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 304 (Cape St. Lucas ; Cape Region). Coues, Key N. 

 Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 900. 



[Pyrrhuloxia sinuata] var. peninsula DoBOlS, Synop. Avium, fasc. IX. 1901, 619 

 (Basse-Californie). 



The characters by which Mr. Ridgway has proposed to distinguish the 

 Pyrrhuloxia of Lower California prove reasonably constant in my series. 

 The form feninsulae, however, does not differ nearly so much from sinuata, 

 as the latter does from texana. 



1 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, II. 1874, 103. 



