CARDELLINA RUBRA C. RUBRIFRONS 331 



indistinct externally ; the middle toe without claw little more 

 than half the tarsus." — Baird, I. c. 



I copy the diagnosis of this genus from Baird, whose critical 

 studies of this group furnish very nice discriminations between 

 the several sections of the Flycatching Warblers. As restricted 

 by him, the genus contains but two species, for one of which he 

 proposed a new subgenus, Ergaticus. The latter, the Vermilion 

 Flycatcher, CardelUna {Ergaticus) rubra* has been attributed 

 to Texas since 1841, but is not positively known to have ever 

 occurred over our border; it inhabits Mexico, and may yet 

 be detected in Southern Arizona or New Mexico, as well as, 

 more probably, in Southern Texas. It is a beautiful bird, of 

 carmine-red color all over, with silvery-white ear-tufts. The 

 type of the genus, G. ruhrifrons, is one of the many interesting 

 additions to our fauna lately made by Mr. Henshaw. 



Red-faced Wartoler 



Cartlellina rnbrifrons 



Musclcapa rubrifrons, Gir. Sixt. Sp. Tex. B. 1841, pi. 7, f. l. 



Setophaga rubrifrons, Bd. Stansb. Rep. GSL. 1852, 329. 



CardelUna rubrifrons, Scl. PZS. 1855, eo.—Bd. BNA. 1858, 306.— Scl. PZS. 1858, 299 



(Parada).— -Srf. PZS. 1859, 374 (Oaxaca).—Scl. Cat. AB. 1861, 31.— Bd. Kev. AB 1865, 



26i.—Salv. Ibis, 2d ser. ii. 1866, 192 (Guatemala).— SewsA. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 



1876,211 (Arizona). 

 Basileuterus rubrifrons, ? Sd. PZS. 1859,363 (Xalapa). 

 Cardellina rubrifrons, Salv. Ibis, 3d ser. iv. 1874, 99 (Guatemala).— fl^ensft. List B. Ariz. 



1875, 156 (Arizona). 

 CardelUna amicta, Dubus, "Esq. Orn. 1850,pl.25".— i?p. CA. i. 1850, 312. 

 Parus erytliropis, Lieht. "Mus. Berol." 



Hab. — From Southern Arizona through Mexico to Gaatemala-. 



Cn. SP. — (? 9 Cinerea ; nucha, uropygio, partihusque inferior i- 

 bus albis,plus minusve rosacea ■ tinatis ; capite rubra, cucuUo nigro ; 

 alis cauddque fusco griseis, albido Umbatis, alis albo fasciatis. 



$ 9 : Upper parts ash, the wings and tail rather darker, and edged with 

 ashy-white ; a hroader and whiter bar across the ends of the median coverts. 

 Below from the breast, white, more or less shaded with ashy on the sides, 

 and tinged with rosy. Rump and a nuchal patch white, or rosy-white. 



*€ardelliua (Ergpaticu^j rubra. — Yermilion Flycatcher. 



Setophaga rubra, Sw. Philos. Mag. L 1827, 368 ; Isis, 1834, Idi.—Bp. PZS. 1837, iii (Guate- 

 mala).— ZJd. Stansb. Hep. GCL. 1^52, 329.— Srf. PZS. 1855, 65. 



CardeUina rubra, Bp. CK.i. 1850, 312.— 6'ass. 111. i. 1854, 265, pi. 43.— &«. PZS. 1856, 293 

 (El Jacale) ; 1858, 299 (Parnda) ; 1859, 363 (Xalapa) ; 1809, 374 (Oaxaca).— Ud. BNA. 

 1858, 290.— &J. Cat. AB. 1861, 3d..— Scl. PZS. 1864, 173 (City of Mexico).— i>'d. Kev. AB. 

 1865, 264 (typo of subg. Eryaticus). 



Baslleuterus ruber. Cab. Mil. i. 1850, 18. 



(Sylvia miniata, Lafr. "Mag.de Zool. 1836, pi. 54" (not/Sciop/iagraminiata of Swainson). 



Wlilte-cheelied Titmouse, Parus leucotis, Gir. 10 Sp. Tex. Birds, 1841, not paged, folio 17, 

 pi. 4, f \.—Leib, Pr. Phila. Acad. i. 1842, 140 (identifies it with Setophaga rubra Sw.). 



Sylvia argyrotis, "lUiger". 



VcrmiUoii Flycatcher, Cats. 1. v—Bd I. c. 



