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A(lult femM/.'.— length (skins), 185.42-109.39 (193.01); win^, 88.39- 

 91.44 (89.66); tail, 92.71; culmen, from base, 20.07-22.10 (21.08); 

 depth of bill at base, 14.99-16.26 (15.75); width of mandible at base, 

 12.19-12.95 (12.45); tarsus, 25.91-28.19 (26.92); middle toe, 17.27-18.29 

 (17.J8).^ 



Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. 



Cardinalis virginianns (not of Bonaparte) Grayson, Proe. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 



1871, 281 (Tres Marias Islands, w. Mexico). 

 [Cardinalis virginianvs'] var. igneus (not CardinaUx igneus Baird) Ridgway, Am. 



Nat., vii, 1873, 617, part (Tres Marias). 

 Cardinalis virginimms .*. . var. igneus Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 



1874, 275 (Tres Marias). 

 Cardinalix virghiianus, var. ignein^ Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 103, part (Tres Marias). 

 \_CardinaUsvirghiinnns] c. (gmcMs Coues, Birds N.W., 1874, 172, part (in synonymy). 

 (Urd'malh igneus (not of Baird) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 



1884, 341, part (Tres Marias). 

 '[Cardinalis cardinalis.] Subsp. /i. < 'ardhiaJis ignnis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. ]\Ins., 



xii, 1888, 164, joart (Tres Marias). 

 Cardinalis cardinalis maripe Nelson, Proc. Biol. 8o<'. Wash., xii, Jan. 27, 189S, 10 



(Maria Madre I., Tres Marias group, w. Mexico; U. S. Nat. ]\tns. ); North 



Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 52 (habits). 



CARDINALIS CARNEUS Lesson. 

 COLIMA CARDINAL. 



Resemblino^ O. cardinalis eoccinem^ but crest longer, with its feathers 

 still' and distinctly outlined (not blended); the bill more depressed, with 

 more convex outlines; adult male with upper parts decidedly lighter 

 in color than in any of the forms of C. cardinalis^ especially the back 

 and rump, the latter, with the upper tail-coverts, decidedly lighter 

 reddish than the former; adult female similar in coloration to that of 

 0. cardinalis coccineus. l)ut outer surface of wings similar in color to 

 the back, with only a little dull reddish toward shafts of some of the 

 feathers, nearly or quite concealed in the closed wing. 



Adxdt ma/c— Length (skins), 180.34-193.04 (184.91); wing, 81.28- 

 85.85(83.82); tail, 89.41-93.98 (91.95); culmen, from base, 17.^27-20.07 

 (18.80); depth of bill at base, 14.99-15.24 (15.11); width of mandible 

 at l)ase, 11.43-12.45 (11.94); tarsus, 22.35-24.89 (23.88); middle toe, 

 15.24-16.00 (15.75).' 



xidxdt female.— \^Qwg\ki (skins), 180.34-184.15 (182.12); wing, 80.77- 

 83.82 (82.30); tail. 81.53; culmen, from base, 18.03-18.80 (18.29); depth 

 of bill at base, 14.73-14.99 (14.86); width of mandible at base, 10.92- 

 n.43 (11.18); tarsus, 22.10-22.61 (22.35); middle toe, 15.49-15.75 

 (15.62).' 



' Five sjiecimens. '^Six specimens. ^Two specimens. 



