640 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATI(>NAL MUSEUM. 



The jrroater p:irt of Texas (west to Poni (irreen and Concho counties), 

 western parts of Indian Territory (^), and northeastern Mexico, in 

 States of Tamaulipas (Victoria. Jauniave), Nuevo Leon (Monterey, 

 Rodrio-uez, l^ajjfdad, Linares, etc.), San Luis Potosi (Matehuala, Valles, 

 Hacienda Ani;ostui-a), Hidalgo (Tula), Guanajuato (^),^ and Puehla 

 (Metlaltoyuca). 



Canlinalis rlnji)ii(()iiis (not of Bonaparte) WoonnocsK, in Sits^reaves' Expl. Zuni 

 and Col. R., 1853, 81 (Texas; Indian Territory).— Bvnu), Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 509, part (Brownsville, Indianola, and Rio Seco, Texas; 

 Neuevo Leon, Mexico); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 

 17 (Brownsville; Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila, Mexico); Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 390, part.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 491 (Texas).— (?) Duces, 

 La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 139 (Guanajuato, Mexico). — Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 203, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridoway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 100, part.— Senxett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 21 

 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, Texas; descr. nest and eggs); v, 1879, 394 

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

 Texas). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 242, part. — Ogilby, Sci. 

 Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882 (40) (Navarro Co., Texas).- Nehrling, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 13 (s. e. Texas).— Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vii, 1882, 39 (Kendall Co., Texas). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1884, 340, part (Texas; Nuevo Leon; Guanajuato?). — Bartlett, 

 Mon. Ploc. and Fring, pt. ii, 1888, 1, part. 



[Oirdlnalii^] virgmimius Coues, Kej' N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, jiart. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. 



<\\_nrrImaH>i'] rir(/i)ii(uni:i Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1S84, 393, part. 



[('(irdiiKtViK rir(/la)iiis\ var. virgmianus Ridgww, Am. Nat., vii, Oct. 1873,617, 

 part. — Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 99, part. 



[OirdinaliK rir<jinianiis'] a. drginiantis Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, part, in 

 synonymy. 



Cardhmli.i rinjhiMOKi Coues, Cheek List, 2d vd., 18S2, no. 299, part. 



Cardinaliii cardinnlln (not Loxia cardinali)^ Linn;eus) American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 593, part.— Hancock, Bull. Ridgw. Orn. Club, 

 no. 2, 1887, 20 (Corpus Christi, Texas).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 293 (Tom 

 Green and Concho counties, w. Texas, resid.). — Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., X, 1887, 680 (Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Beeville, Texas). — 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 215, part (San Angelo, Texas; Caddo, 

 Indian Territory? ).—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 161, part (Ken- 

 dall Co., Texas).— Hasbrouck, Auk, vi, 1889, 240 (Eastland Co., Texas).— 



Texas, the red being appreciably more intense; but while they thus approach C. c. 

 cocdneus they may at onee be distinguished from that form by their decidedly 

 smaller and less turgid bill, very much duller red crest, and, except in worn post- 

 nuptial dress, very distinct grayish margins to the feathers of the l)ack. Females 

 from localities in the same States and also one from Hidalgo (Tula, INIarch 9, no. 

 144311, IT. S. Nat. Mus., E. W. Nelson, collector) are quite indistinguishablt om 

 Texan females; in fact, they can be very closely matched hy several specimens from 

 southern Illinois and Indiana. 



^The specimens examined from Guanajuato were evidently cage birds, since they 

 all show the peculiar light l)uff-yellow markings on head, neck, and chest said to be 

 produced artificially l)y the Indian bird fanciers of that district. The specimens 

 were all males, no females having been examined. These artificially yellow-marked 

 birds represent the C. flavonotatus of Russ (see synonymy, page 641). 



