048 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Card inali s virgini ana ignea Coues, Check List, 2(1 ed., 1882, no. 300, part. 



C.\_ardinalis'] v.[irginianus'] igneus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 394, 

 part. 



Cardinalis ruber igneus Stejxeoek, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 172 part. 



Cardinally cardinalis igneus Stejxeger, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 171, in text. — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 593/j. 



C.[ardinaU}<\ cardinalis igneus HiiMiww', Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442. 



[Cardin(dis cardinalis.^ Subsp. fJ. Cardinalis igneus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. xii, 1888, 164, part (San Jos6 and Cape St. Lucas, Lower California). 



Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 100, part 

 (Cape St. Lucas). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS AFFINIS Nelson. 

 ALAMOS CARDINAL. 



Similur to O. c. igneus but averao-ing slig-htly larger, bill decidedly 

 narrower or less tumid/ and females decidedly grayer al)oveand ditUer 

 tawny-])uff beneath, with more dull red on wings and tail (especially on 

 the latter). 



Adult ///r/7tf.— Length (skins), 200.66-218.44 (211.58); wing, 91.44- 

 99.06 (94.49); tail, 106.68-113.03 (109.73); culmen, from base, 19.81- 

 21.59 (20.57); depth of bill at base, 15.49-17.27 (16.51); widthof man- 

 dible at base, 12.70-13.46 (12.95); tarsus, 25.40-26.67 (25.91); middle 

 toe, 15.75-17.78 (17.53).'' 



Adult female.— Ijk^ngVa (skins), 200.66-213.36 (206.25); wing, 90.17- 

 93.47 (91.44); tail, 101.60-113.03 (106.17); culmen, from base, 19.81- 

 20.32 (20.07); depth of bill at base, 15.24-15.75 (15.49); width of man- 

 dible at base, 12.19-12.70 (12.45); tarsus, 24.89-25.91 (25.40); middle 

 toe, 17.02-17.78 (17.27).' 



Coast district of southern Sonora (Alamos, Ortiz, Batamotal, Guay- 

 mas, etc.) and northern Sinaloa, east into southwestern Chihuahua 

 (Batopilas, etc.). 



Cardinalis virginianus igneus (not Cardinalis igneus Baird) Belding, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora). 

 Cardinalis cardinalis superbus (not of Ridgway) American Ornthologists' Union, 



Check List, 1886, no. 593«, part. 

 Clardinalis] cardinalis superbus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442, part. 

 Cardinalis cardinalis affinis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, May 29, 1899. 



28 (Alamos, Sonora; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS SINALOENSIS Nelson. 

 MAZATLAN CARDINAL. 



Similar to C c. igneus but smaller, with ))ill longer and relative!}' 

 narrower; adult male with the red purer and slightly more intense; 



^ The difference in the shape of the bill is but faintly suggested by measurements, 

 which, of course, intlicate distances in straight lines; it is quite obvious on compari- 

 son of specimens. 



^ Eight specimens. 



'Three si)ecimens (wing of foiu- measured). 



