46 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Hesperipliona] n'fipoiina (not Frlngllla respcrtina AV. Cooper, 1825) Bonapakte, 



Consp. Av., i, 1850, 505, part (supposed young). 

 Coccothrausles macuJipennis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1860, 251, ])1. 163 



(Orizaba, Vera Cruz; coll. P. L. Sclater;=adult female). — Sclater and Sal- 



Yix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 398 (Altotenango, Guatemala). — Salvin, 



Ibis, 1865, 206. 



Genus LOXIA Linnaeus. 



Loxia LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat.,ed. 10, i. 175S, 171. (TyiH\ by elmination, L. cnrvi- 



rostra Linnaeus. ) 

 Cnicirostra Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamtu., etc., Brit. Mus., ]S16, 12. (Ty]:ie, Loxia 



cnrvirostra Linnaeus.) 

 Cnrrirostra Brehm, Ornis, iii, 1827, 85. (Type, Loxia rtirrlniMra Linnrcus.) 



Large to rather small arboreal linelies. with the falcate maxilla and 

 mandible crossed at tips. 



Bill much compressed terminally, with both maxilla and mandi])le 

 falcate and crossed in adults; culmen and g-onvs both distinctly ridged; 

 mandibular tomium straight for basal half, concave thence to the tip; 

 maxillary tomium without distinct basal deflection. Nasal plumtiles 

 conspicuous, quite concealing nostrils. Wing long (about five and a 

 half times as long as tarsus), pointed (three outermost primaries longest, 

 the ninth decidedly longer than the sixth); primaries exceeding sec- 

 ondaries by more than twice the length of the tarsus. Tail short (more 

 than half as long as the wing) and narrow, deeply emarginated or 

 forked, more than half hidden by the upper coverts. Tarsi short, little 

 if any longer than commissure, not more than one-third as long as the 

 tail, shorter than middle toe with claw; lateral claws falling short of 

 base of middle claw; hind toe as long as inner toe, its claw shorter 

 than its digit; but strongly curved. 



Colore. — Adult males red, with wings and tail black or dusky, the 

 former with or without white bands. Adult females and immature (?) 

 males with olive-greenish and yellowish replacing the red. Young 

 conspicuouslv streaked. 



JRancfe.- — Paltearctic and Nearctic regions in general, except wai'mer 

 parts; in the latter, south to high mountains of Guatemala; Philippine 

 Islands (in mountains). 



key to the species axd subspecies of loxia. 



a. Wings dusky relieved only l)y narrow and usually indistinct edgings of jmler. 

 [Jjoxia cnrvirostra}) 

 h. Smallest: Wing of male ad. averaging 87.38, tail 50.04, exposed culmen 16.51, 

 depth of bill at base 10.16, tarsus 16.51, middle toe 13.72; colors slightly 

 darker and duller. (Northern and eastern Xortli America.) 



Loxia curvirostra minor (p. 47) 



' ' '. n '. 



'^ Loxia currtrustra curviro'^tra has been introduced, from Europe, into the United 



States, and may, unless lost by interbreeding with the native races, have become 



naturalized. It is intermediate in size between L. c. bendirei and L. c. xtrickland^j 



but is duller colored than either. 



