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North American Birds Eggs. 



593c. Gray-tailed Cardinal. C. c. canicaudufi. 



Range. — Northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. 



The male of this species is like the eastern Cardinal hut the female is said to 

 be grayer. The nesting habits are the same and the eggs identical with those of 

 the latter. 



593d. Florida Cardinal. C. c. floridanus. 



Range. — Southern Florida. 



Supposed to be a deeper and richer shade of red. 

 alis. 



Eggs like those of cardin- 



594. Arizona Pyrrhuloxia. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata. 



Range. — Northwestern Mexico and-,the southern border of New Mexico, Ari- 

 zona and western Texas. 



This species is of similar form and crested like a Cardinal, 

 but the bill is very short anc? hooked like that of a Parrot; the 

 plumage is grayish, with wings and tail dull reddish; face 

 and throat, and middle of belly rosy red. Their habits are 

 the same as those of the Cardinal, but their nests are said to 

 be slighter; they are placed in similar locations to those of 

 the latter, the two species often nesting together in the same 

 thicket. Their eggs are like those of the Cardinal but average 

 smaller, although the ranges overlap so that the eggs cannot 

 be distinguished. Size,'. 90 x .70. Data.— San Antonio, Texas, May 16, 1889, 

 Nest of tine grasses, lined with rootlets; 4 feet from ground in a mesquite tree. 

 Collector, H. P. Atwater. 



[Bluish white.] 



594a. Texas Pyrrhuloxia. P. s. texana. 



Range. — Northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. 

 Said to be grayer and the bill to average larger than that of the last, 

 are no differences in;the nesting habits or eggs between the two varieties. 



There 



594b. Saint Lucas Pyrrhuloxia. P. s. pcuinsulH'. 



Range. — Southern Lower California. 



Smaller than the Arizona Cardinal but with a larger bill, 

 those of the others but may average a tritle smaller. 



The eggs are like 



595. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Zamelodia ludoviciana. 



Range. — United States, east of the Plains, breeding from the Middle States 

 and Ohio north to Manitoba and Nova Scotia. 



This beautiful black and white bird with rosy red breast 

 and under wing coverts, is one of the most pleasing of our 

 songsters. They nest either in bushes or trees, generally 

 between six and twenty feet from the ground and usually in 

 thick clumps of trees or scrubby apple trees. The three or 

 four eggs, which are laid in June, are greenish blue, 

 spotted, most heavily about the larger end, with reddish 

 brown. Size 1.00 x .75. Data. — Worcester, Mass., June 

 5, 1899. Nest of twigs and rootlets in small apple tree in 

 woods; nest very frail, eggs showing through the bottom. Collector A. C. White. 



[(Treenish blue. I 



