(i46 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and under parts rather light pure ver- 

 milion red, decidedly lighter than average of C. c. cardinaUs., the crest 

 rather deeper red than under parts, and, except in worn summer 

 plumage, more or less obscured by olive-grayish tips to feathers; 

 black capistrum as in C. c. cardinali^^ but narrower superiorly, not con- 

 tinous across anterior part of forehead; otherwise not obviously dif- 

 ferent in coloration from G. c. cardinalw; length (skins), 213.36-228.00 

 (221.49); wing, 99.57-104.39 (101.85); tail, 118.02-127.00 (122.43); 

 culmen, from base, 20.32-22.61 (22.10); depth of bill at base, 10.51- 

 17.78 (17.27); width of mandible at base, 13.21-13.97 (13.46); tarsus, 

 27.43-28.45 (28.19); middle toe, 17.78-19.05 (18.29).^ 



Adult female. — Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep brownish 

 gray or grayish hair brown; coloration otherwise much like that of 

 the female of C. c. fiorldanus., but even more deeply and uniformly 

 tawny (clay color or deep clay -buff) beneath, the capistrum sometimes 

 quite distinct and deep grayish, the sides of head and chest often con- 

 spicuously touched with red; length (skins), 199.39-210.82 (204.98); 

 wing, 96.27-101.00 (98.55); tail, 113.79-120.65 (117.09); culmen, from 

 ])ase, 20.83; depth of bill at base, 15.75; width of mandible at base, 

 12.45-12.95 (12.70); tarsus, 25.40-25.91 (25.65); middle toe, 16.70- 

 17.53 (17.02).' 



Southern Arizona and contig'uous parts of Sonora (Magdalena, Oputo, 

 etc.), northwestern Mexico. 



(?) Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 



1858, 509, part (Fort Thorn, New Mexico) . 

 Cardinalis igneus (not of Baird) Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1808, 84 (Camp 



Grant, Arizona). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 238, part (Camp Grant). — 



Yarrow, Eep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1871 (1874), 35 (Arizona).— 



Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 341, part. — Bartlett, 



Mon. Ploc. and Fring., pt. iii, 1889, jiart (Cam}) Grant and Tucson, Arizona). 

 \_CardinaIh virginianus.'^ Yar. igneiiK Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, part 



(Arizona). 

 ICardinulis rirginianuHl var. ig)K'ns Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 617, part 



( Arizona) . 

 Cardinalis virginianus . . . var. igneus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 203«, part. — 



Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874), 159 (s. e. Arizona); 



Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 302 (Cienega, Arizona). 

 Cardinalis virginianus, var. igneus Baird, Brewer, and Ridc;way, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 103, part (Arizona). 

 \_Cardinalis virginianus'] c. igneus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, })art (in 



synonymy) . 

 Cardinalis virginianus igneus Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. C-lub, vi, Apr., 1881, 69 



(SanPedroR., Arizona); vii, 1882, 199 (Tucson, Arizona). — Ridgway, Nom. 



N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 242a, part. 

 Cardinalis virginiana ignea Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 300, part. 

 C.[_ardinalis] v.[irginianus'] igneus CovE>i, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 394, 



part. 



^ Seven specimens. ■' Two specimens. 



