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(Rio Grande).— C.vssix, IlluHtr. Birds Cal., Texas, etc., 1856, 204, part (San 

 Pedro R. and Ringgold Barracks, Texas; Tainaulipas; Nuevo Leon; not pL 

 33).— ScLATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 101 (Ringgold Barracks, Texas). 



Pyrrliuloxia simiata Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 508, part (Nuevo 

 Leon; Ringgold Barracks, Texas); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 

 ii, 1859, 17, part (do.); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 389, part. — Heermann, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 16, part (San Pedro R., Texas).— 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 491 (P'agle Pass and Piedras Negras, Texas). — Butcher, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 150 (Laredo, Texas).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 236, part.— CoiTES, Check List, 1873, no. 202, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 298, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 95, 

 part, pi. 30, fig. 3.' — McCaulev, Bull. U. S. Geol. and (ireog. Surv. Terr., iii, 

 1877, 666 (Canoncito Blanco, edge of Staked Plains, n. Texas). — Sennett, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 21 (Brownsville and 

 Hidalgo, Texas; habits) ; v, 1879,393 (Lometa, Texas; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 1878, 129 (Fort Brown, Texas) .—Brew- 

 ster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1878, 122 (descr. young). — Ridgway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 243, part; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 444, part.— 

 Brown, Auk, i, 1884, 122 (Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas). — Salvin and God- 

 MAX, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 343, part (Rio Grande Valley, Texas; 

 Nuevo Leon). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 594, 

 part (lower Rio Grande Valley) . — Beckha.m, Proc. U. S. Nat. INIus., x, 1888, 680 

 (Corpus Christi and Beeville,Texas; song, etc. ). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val- 

 ley, 1888, 216 (San Antonio, Eagle Pass, Boerne, and San Angelo, Texas). — 

 SHARPE,Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., xii, 1888, 158, part ( Eagle Pass, Laredo, andRing- 

 gold Barracks, Texas). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 339 (San Antonio, Texas, 

 common resident). — Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 110 (Corpus 

 Christi). — Jouy, Proc. LT. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 779 (Ahualulco, San Luis 

 Potosi, Oct.). — Singley, Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas, 1894, 372 (Rio Grande 

 City and Hidalgo). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896. 198. 



IPyrrhulo.via'] sinuald Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, j.art. 



P.\jjrr1iuloxia'\ sinuata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 393, part. — • 

 Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 444, part. 



PiirrhnJoxia sinuata texana Ridgway, Auk, xiv, Jan., 1897, 95 (Corpus Christi, 

 Texas; U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xiv, 1897, 129 (no. 594a). 



Genus CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 



Cardhialis Bonaparte, Saggio di una Distr. Met. An. Vert., 1831, 53, 141 {nomen 

 nudum); Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1837, 111. (Tyjie, Loxia rurdmallti IJn- 

 nseus. ) 



Rather large, con.spicuou.sl}' crested, thick-l)illed Fringillidas, with 

 tail longer than wing, the latter rather .short and ronnded; adult males 

 bright red, with black capistruni; adult females with plumage partly 

 red. 



Bill stout, conical, much deeper than ])road at base, where its depth 

 is about equal to length of exposed culmen; culmen decidedly, some- 

 times strongly, convex; gonys straight, shorter than distance from 

 nostril to tip of maxilla; maxillary tomium sinuated a little anterior to 



* Evidently colored, however, from a specimen of true P. s. sinuata or P. s. peninsula'. 



