BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 648 



Gulf slope (hot and temperate districts) of southeastern Mexico, 

 in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Cordova; Orizaba; Catemaco; Ota- 

 titlan; San Andres Tuxtla ?; Jalapa ; Antigua) and northeastern 

 Oaxaca (Tuxtepec; Playa Vicente); north to southern Taniaulipas 

 (Alta Mira). 



Cardinalis virglnianiis (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , 1856, 

 302 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 378 (Playa 

 Vicente, Oaxaca). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 552 (Vera 

 Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 340, part (Cor- 

 dova and Jalapa; Playa Vicente). — Bartlett, Mon. Ploc. and Fring. , pt. ii, 

 1888, l,part. 



ICardinalisI viryinianus Sclater and Salvix, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. 



Cardinalis virginianus \ar. coccineus ^WGw ay, Am. Journ. Sci.,v, Jan., 1873,39, 

 part (type from Mexico^); Am. Nat.,vii, Oct., 1873, 617, imrt (Mirador); 

 in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 99, part. 



ICardinalis vlrg'mianus] var. coccineus Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 617, 

 part (Mirador). 



Cardinalis coccineus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 pl.30, fig. 8 (bill).— Salvin, Ibis, 1888, 260, part. 



ICardinalis virginianus'] b. coccineus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, part. 



Cardinalis ruber coccineus Stejneger, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 172. 



C. lardinaiis'] cardinalis coccineus Ridgway', Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442. 



Cardinalis cardinalis cocctneu-s Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 28 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz). 



{^Cardi^ialis cardinalis.] Subsp. oc Cardinalis coccineus Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus.,xii, 1888, 163, part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS LITTORALIS Nelson. 

 TABASCO CARDINAL. 



Similar to ('. c. roerinciis but adult male much deeper, less scarlet, 

 red, the head, neck, and under parts much nearer carmine than ver- 

 milion, the back, etc., more purplish dusky red; adult female siiuilar 

 in color to that of C. c. coccineus. 



Adult in< 1.1,.— I jQugih (skins), 190. .50-210.82 (201.17); wing, 82.55- 

 91.44 (87.03); tail, 94.74-105.92 (100.84); culmen, from base, 20.07- 

 20. S3 (20.32); depth of l)ill at base, 16.51-17.53 (17.02); width of 

 mandible at base, 12.45-13.72 (12.95); tarsus, 25.15-26.16 (25.91); 

 jniddle toe, 16.00-18,54(17.53).' 



' ^ This specimen is undoubtedly either from the State of Vera Cruz or the contigu- 

 ous portion of the State of Oaxaca, since it agrees exactly with examples from that 

 district in the collection of the Biological Survey (Department of Agriculture) . 

 It was received by the Smithsonian Institution, in 1863, from M. Salle, and on 

 the original label bears the following, apparently in Mr. A. Boucard's handwriting, 

 " Catdinalis virginianus Lin. carneus Less. R. Z., p. 210, Mexique," and on the reverse 

 side, "No. 100." Boucard made collections for M.Salle at Playa Vicente, Oaxaca, 

 in 1858, and "Cardinalis virginianus" is named in Dr. Sclater' s list of Boucard's col- 

 lection (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 378). Possibly, therefore, this specimen, 

 which I have selected as the type of C. c. coccineus, is from Boucard's Playa Vicente 

 collection. 

 ^ Four specimens. 



