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or directly benoath no.stril, with iioarly obsolete .subterminal notch or 

 none at till; mandibular tomiuni either nearlj' straight or decidedly 

 convex anterior to it.s su])basal angle, the latter more or less posterior 

 to the middle portion and with oi' without a notch in front of it. 

 Nostrils nearly or quite concealed by small frontal feathers. Rictal 

 bristles distinct. Wing rather short (about three and a half to three 

 and tiiree-fourths times as long as tarsus), nuich rounded (seventh to 

 foui-th i)i'imaries longest, ninth shorter than second); primaries exceed- 

 ing secondai'i(^s by l(\ss than length of exposed culmen. Tail longer 

 than wing, slightly rounded. Tarsus about equal to or a little longer 

 than middle toe with claw, its scutella distinct; lateral claws not reach- 

 ing to l)ase of middle claw; hallux decidedlj^ shorter than lateral toes, 

 its claw shorter than the digit. 



Colors. — Adult males entirel}^ red, except l)lack around base of bill 

 or on qKxw {O. 2>]uenlc('i(s)\ adult females brownish above, dull tawny 

 or pale l)uffy below, the crest, wings, and tail dull reddish and under 

 wing-coverts pinkish red (except in (_\ j>h(r?)^'rt'it.s); young not streaked. 



E(//i(/r. — More southern United States to British Honduras; coast 

 district of Coloml)ia and Veiu'zuela; Trinidad. 



The evident gap between Oardmali)^ and PyrrhuJoxid is nearl}^ 

 bi-idged l)v <"/. ^>//^/^/^/rv'l'^s', Avhich has the culmen strongly convex, the 

 maxillary tomium deeply incised (with notch anterior to the nasal 

 fossa^), and the mandil>ular tomium convex, with its angle only a little 

 posterioi' to the middle. Were it not that C carneuH exhi))its in these 

 featui'es, as well as in its longer and stiti'er crest-feathers, ;ui approach 

 to C. 2>Ji<(')iweit><-. I should be disposed to separate the latter generically 

 from ( '. (Yirdinalis. O. carneus is, however, much nearer to C. cardi- 

 'ixdls than to C. j)k(v?i?ee}ifi. 



The geographic distril)ution of this gemis includes two widely 

 separated areas; one embracing the Lower Sonoran Province of North 

 America, from the middle Atlantic coast of the LTnited vStates to the 

 peninsula of Lower California and south through all wooded parts of 

 Mexico, below the pine ])elt, to Yucatan and British Honduras; the other 

 embracing the northern part of South America, in Venezuela and 

 Colombia. No form of the genus has been found in any part of the 

 intermediate territoiy. A distinct type belongs to each of the areas 

 designated, the South Auierican being, as above stated, almost gener- 

 ically distinct from the North American forms. The latttu- include 

 apparently not more than two species; one of very limited range, con- 

 Hned to the coast district of southwestern Mexico, in the States ot 

 Guerrero and Oaxaca, the other, modified into a considerable munl^er 

 of geographic subspecies, occupying the rest of Mexico and those por- 

 tions of the United States em))raced within the area outlined al)ove. 



The specimens of ('((rd/'ardis cnrd!n(d!s from all parts of the humid 

 eastern portion of the Lower Sonoran Pi'ovince of the United States, 

 from New Jersey to Kjinsas, and southward to near the Gulf coast 



