BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 651 



Coast district of southwestern Mexico, in States of Colima, Guer- 

 rero (Acapulco), andOaxaca^ (Tehuan tepee, Huamelula, Playa Vicente, 

 etc.); Kealejo, Nicaragua? 



Cocfothraustes [CardinaUs) carneus Lesson, Rev. Znnl., July, 1842, 210 (Acapulco, 



Guerrero, Mexico). 

 C.[ard'maUs] carneus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 358. — Bonaparte, (V>nsp. Av., i, 



1850, 501.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Ain. Birds, 1887, 443. 

 Cardinalis carneus Salvin and Godm.\n, Biol. Centr.-Aui., Aves, i, 1884, 341 



(Acapulco; Sierra Nevada, Colima; Huamelula, Oaxaca). 

 CardinaKs vlrginianus var. carneus Ridcjway, Am. Journ. Sci., v, Jan., 1873, 39 



(Colima). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 99 



(do.). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1874, 275 (Sierra Madre, 



Colima) ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 20 (Huamelula, Oaxaca). 

 [Cardinalis virginianus'] var. carneus Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 617. 

 ICardinalis 'rirghiiamts.] d. carneus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 172 (synonymy). 

 ICardinalh cardhudis.] Subsp. y. Oirdlnalis cartieus Siiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xii, 1888, 166 (Acapulco). 

 C'ardincdis ruber carneus '^TK.^^NE^iER, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 172. 

 Cardincdis vlrginianus (not of Bonaijarte) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 



421 (Acapul(;o). — Bartlett, Mon. Ploc. and Fring., pt. ii, 1888, 1, part. 

 {?)('. lardinalis} lessoiii Bonaparte, Cons]). Av., i, 1850, 501 (no locality given). 



Genus PITYLUS Cuvier. 



Pityhis CuvaER, Regne Animal, i, 1829, 413. (Type, Lo.ria grossa Linnaeus.) 

 Cissurus Reichenbacu, Av. Syst. Nat., 1850, pi. 77. (Type, Loxia fuiiginosa 

 Daudin. ) 



Large stout-))illed Fringillidjc witti short and much-rounded wing, 

 tail about as long as wing and much rounded, and small feet (tarsus a 

 little longer than culmen, measured from extreme base, and middle toe 

 with claw decidedly shorter than tarsus); cok)ration mostly plain slate, 

 with some black and white, the bill red (yellowish in dried skins). 



Bill stout, turgid-conical, much deeper than broad at base, its basal 

 depth decidedly greater than distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; 

 culmen strongly convex, nearly as long (from extreme base), as tar- 

 sus; gonys straight, a little shorter than distance from nostril to tip 

 of maxilla; maxilla and niandible about equal in depth; maxillary 



^ It is possiVjle the Oaxaca birds referred to this species may require separation 

 from those found in the States of Guerrero and Colima, but the series I have been 

 able to examine is too small to enable me to form a decided opinion in the matter. 

 The three males from Tehuantepec have decidedly longer bills than the one from 

 Acapulco or the two from Colima, and the same difference is observable Ijetween two 

 females from the first two named localities; the culmen in birds from Tehuantepec 

 measuring from 18.80-20.07 (averaging 19.56), in those from Acapulco and Colima 

 only 17.27-18.54 (averaging 18.03) . The Tehuantei^ec males also appear to have the 

 black on the forehead broader. The principal reason, however, for suspecting the 

 existence of two forms is the very marked difference between the two females from 

 Tehuantepec and Acapulco, respectively. That from Tehuantepec has the capistrum 

 quite black and very sharply defined, while that from Acapulco has the capistrum 

 I dusky grayish and without sharp outlines. 



