444 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



parts light brownish gray (without any red). Young : Like adult female, but bill 

 more or less dusky. Length 7.50-8.75, wing 3.60-3.85, tail 4.35-4.80. ]\^est and 

 eggs like those of Gardinalis, but the latter smaller, averaging .94 X -73. Hah. 

 Northern Mexico and contiguous border of United States, from southern Texas to 

 southern Arizona and Lower California.. 594. P. sinuata Bonap. Texan Cardinal. 



Genus HABIA Eeichenbach. (Page 383, pi. CXI., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Adult males with head, wings, and tail black ; two broad 

 bands across wing, patch at base of quills, and terminal portion of inner webs of 

 outer tail-feathers, white ; under wing-coverts rose-pink or gamboge-yellow. Adult 

 females with wings and tail similar, but black duller and white markings more re- 

 stricted ; other black portions of male replaced by brownish, streaked with dusky ; 

 under w^ing-coverts saffron-yellow or lemon-yellow ; breast streaked. Nest a very 

 thin saucer-shaped structure, composed of wiry rootlets, etc., in bushes or low trees. 

 Eggs 2-4, bluish green or greenish blue, speckled with clove-brown, vandyke-brown, 

 or burnt-umber. 



rt\ Under wing-coverts rose-red (male) or saifron-yellow (female). 



Adult male : Head, neck, back, wings, and tail uniform deep black, the 

 wings and tail varied with white, as described above ; breast (some- 

 times throat also) and under wing-coverts pure rose-red ; rest of "lower 

 parts, with rump, pure white. Adult female : Black of male replaced by 

 dull brownish, streaked with dusky ; breast brownish white, streaked 

 with dusky ; under wing-coverts pale salmon-yellow or saffron-yellow. 

 Young male, first autumn: Wings and tail as in adult male; head, neck, 

 and back brown, streaked with black ; throat and sides brownish white, 

 or pale brownish, streaked with black ; chest more or less extensively 

 tinged with rose-red ; under wing-coverts pale rose-red or rose-pink. 

 Length 7.00-8.50, wing 3.90-4.15, tail 3.25-3.55. Eggs .95 X -67. JIab. 

 Eastern North America, north to Canada, breeding from northern 

 United States northward; south, in winter, through Cuba and Middle 

 America to northern South America. 



595. H. ludoviciana (Linn.). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



a'^. Under wing-coverts clear gamboge-yellow, or lemon-yellow. 



Adult male: Head black, the throat, and sometimes a postocular stripe 

 (occasionally a stripe on middle of crown also), light cinnamon-ochra- 

 ceous ; wings and tail black, varied with white, as in H. ludoviciana ; 

 back mixed black and light cinnamon (sometimes uniform black) ; rump, 

 collar round hind-neck, and most of lower parts uniform buffy cinna- 

 mon ; belly and under wing-coverts lemon-yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 white. Adult female : Above dusky grayish brown, streaked, especially 

 on back and middle line of crown, with pale fulvous or buffy ; beneath 



