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adult female similar to that of C. e. ajfinis l)ut smaller and decidedly 

 darker, both above and below. 



Adult male.~LQr\gih. (skin), 203.20; wing, 91.95; tail, 104.14; cul- 

 men, from base, 22.35; depth of bill at base, 16.51; width of mandible 

 at base, 12.95; tarsus, 25.40; middle toe, 17.27.^ 



Ad^iU female.— l^Qn^th (skin), 194.31; wing, 85.85; tail, 94.49; cul- 

 men, from base, 20.32; depth of bill at base, 16.51; width of mandi- 

 ble at base, 11.43; tarsus, 25.40; middle toe, 17.53." 



Coast plains and foothills of central and southern Sinaloa (vicinity 

 of Mazatlan, Culiacan, etc.); eastward to Michoacan (Patzcuaro) ? ^ 



Cardinalis virgimanuii (not of Bonaparte) Fixsch, Abh. Nat. Yer. Bremen, 1870, 



339 (Mazatlan). 

 Cardlnalis vlrgmianus . . . var. ignens (not Cardmalis igneus Baird) Lawrence, 



Mem. Best. See. N. H., ii, 1874, 275, part (Mazatlan). 

 Cardinalis igneus (not of Baird) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Avet^, i, 



1884, 341, part (Mazatlan). 

 [^CardinaUff cardinalis.^ Subsp. /5. Cardmalis igneus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis., 



xii, 1888, 164, part (Presidio, near Mazatlan). 

 Cardinalis cardinalis superhns ( not of Ridgway ) American Ornithologists' Union, 



Check List, 1886, no. 593fl, part (Mazatlan). 

 C.[^urdinalis\ cardinalis sujierbus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442, part 



(Mazatlan). 

 (?) Cardinalis cardinalis igneus Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 



223 (Limoncito and Altata, Sinaloa). 

 Cardinalis cardinalis sinaloensis Nelson, Proc. Biol. 8oc. Wash., xiii, May 29, 



1899, 28 (Culiacan, Sinaloa; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS MARINE Nelson. 

 TRES MARIAS CARDINAL. 



Similar to C e. igneus but wing longer, tail shorter, feet larger, 

 and bill more tumid; adult male with the red rather more scarlet, 

 and the back less obscured by olive-grayish tips to feathers (?); adult 

 female decidedly paler below, with the abdomen distinctly white. 



Adult male.— Ijength. (skins), 199.39-220.98 (207.52); wing, 91.44- 

 98.55(95.00); tail, 93.98-102.87 (99.31); culmen, from base, 20.32-22.10 

 (21.08); depth of bill at base, 15.75-17.27 (16.51); width of mandible 

 at base, 12.70-12.95 (12.70); tarsus, 27.18-29.21 (28.19); middle toe, 

 17.78-19.05 (18.29).* 



^ One specimen. 



^One specimen (type). 



* The single specimen from Michoacan is in abnormal plumage, the red Ijeing of 

 a distinct orange hue; furthermore, the remiges and rectrices are much broken, so 

 that satisfactory measurements of wing and tail can not be made. Other measure- 

 ments are as follows: Culmen, from base, 21.08; width of mandible at base, 12.70; 

 tarsus, 25.65; middle toe, 17.78. These measurements are sufficiently near to those 

 of the Sinaloa bird, but until more specimens have been examined from Michoacan 

 birds from that district can only be referred here provisionally. 



* Seven specimens. 



