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KE\1EW OF AMERICAN BIRDS 



[part I. 



Cardelliiia ruljrifroiis. 



Miscicapa ruhrifrons, Gikaud, Birds Texas, 1S41, pi. vii, fig. 1 (N. E. 



Mexico). — Cardelliiia rubrifrons, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, 66; ib. 



1858, 299 (Oaxaca) ; 1859, 374 (do.).— Ib. Catal. 1861, 37, uo. 229. 

 Cardellina amicta, (" Dl-bu?, MSS."), Bon. Consp. 1850, 312. 

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



Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



(No. 29,708.) Above grajisli-ash ; a nuchitl patch, rump and under parts, 

 white, more or less tinged with rosy. Head and neck all round bright red, 

 crossed however by a hood of black on the top of head, passing down over the 

 ears, leaving the forehead, lores, eyelids, and sides of the neck red. There is 

 no red on the occiput, the white of the nape immediately succeeding the black. 

 Inside of wings white, and an ashy white band across the median wing 

 coverts. Sides of body ashy. Female similar, but duller in color. 



Length, 5.00; wi^ng, 2.77; tail, 2.75 ; graduation, .14 ; differeflce between 

 1st and 3d (longest) quills, .12 ; bill from forehead, .45, nostril, .27, gape, .48 ; 

 tarsus, .70; middle toe and claw, .54. 



Sraitb-iCoUec- 



sonian tor's 



No. I No. 



29.708 

 30,702 



Sex 

 and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



Mexico. 

 Tutonicapam, Guat. 



Wben 

 Collected. 



Eeceived from 



Collected by 



A. Sail.'. 

 O. Sa.lvin. 



Ergaticus, Bairtl. 



Ergalicits, Baird. (Page 237.) (Type Setophagn rubra, &w.) 



Bill very short, and rather slender ; the culmen, however, and commissure 

 curved from the base. Rictal bristles well developed, reaching midway from 

 nostril to tip. Wings rather shorter than the nearly even, somewhat rounded 

 tail ; the 3d and 4th quills about equal ; the 1st a little shorter than the Gth. 

 Tarsi lengthened ; the middle toe without claw half the tarsus. 



This form differs from typical Cardellina in much slenderer, 

 though somewhat similarly shaped bill, greater development of rictal 

 bristles, considerably shorter and more rounded wings, etc. In some 

 respects it resembles the section Idiotes of Basileuterus, but may 

 properly be separated. 



Cardellina rulira. 



Sctophaga rubra, Swains. Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 368 (eastern Mexico). — 

 CAS.SIN, 111. Birds Cal. Texas, I, 1854, 266, pi. :z.m\.— Cardellina 

 rubra, Bo.v. Consp. 1850, 312.— Sclatek, P. Z. S. 185G, 292 (El 



