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Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, .339 (Sau Antonio). — Singley, Rep. Geol. Surv. 

 Tex., 189-1, 372 (Corpus Christi, etc.). 



C. \_ardinaUs\ cardinaUs Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442, part. 



Cardinalis cardlnalis canicaudus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, no. 2, 

 Aug. 27, 1891, 324 (near Corpus Christi, Texas; Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk., ix, 1892, 106; Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 593r.— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci Phila., 1892, 110 

 (Corpus Christ!).— JouY, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 779 (Hacienda 

 Angostura, San Luis Potosi).^ — Ridgway', Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 

 605. 



Cardinalis flavonotatus " Russ, Zeitschrif t. " (Nehrkorn, Journ. fiir Orn. 1890^ 

 130, in text; erit). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS FLORIDANUS Ridgway. 

 FLORIDA CARDINAL. 



Similar to 0. c. cardinalis but decidedly smaller and darker; adult 

 male with terminal margins of feathers of back, etc., distinctly oliva- 

 ceous instead of gray, the red of under parts, etc. , deeper or darker, 

 without the purit\^ of red of western (Mississippi Valley and Texan) 

 specimens; adult female with upper parts more distinctly olivaceous 

 and under parts more tawny. 



Adult males.— \j^\\gi\\ (skins), 190.50-200.66 (1!»1:.56); wing, 87.12- 

 93.08 (90.17); tail, 93.98-106.68 (98.30); culmen, from base, 17.78- 

 20.07 (19.05); depth of bill at base, M. 73-16. 00 (15.24); width of man- 

 dible at base, 11.43-12.70 (12.19); tarsus, 23.62-25.91 (24.89); middle 

 toe. 11.43-12.70 (12.19).^ 



Adult females.— l^^wgih (skins), 172.72-193.04 (185.93); wing, 81.28- 

 90.93(84.84); fail, 85.09-99.06(91.19); culmen, from base, 16.51-19.05 

 (18. .54); depth of bill at base, 14.99-15.49 (15.24); width of mandible 

 at base, 10.92-12.70 (11.94); tarsus, 23.37-25.40 (24.13); middle toe, 

 15.49-18.2.9 (16.26).' 



' Sixteen specimens. 



^ Fourteen specimens. 



This form, of which nearly 150 adult specimens have been examined, shows a dis- 

 tinct approach toward the characters of the forms of southeastern Mexico, especially 

 those of Yucatan and Cozumel. It is apparently entirely restricted to the peninsula 

 of Florida. 



Four adult male Cardinals from New Orleans, Madison ville, and Covington, Louisi- 

 ana, obtained in Noveml)er and Decemlier, resemble Florida males very closely in 

 coloration, though the red is rather purer; but they have much larger bills, larger 

 feet, and relatively longer wings and shorter tail, the average measurements compar- 

 ing with those of Florida specimens, as follows: 



The bill is, in fact, decidedly larger in these Louisiana birds than in any other 

 specimens from the L^nited States east of Arizona, and I have little doubt that it will 



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