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in addition to that of Xantus and Baird. It was returned to the museum 

 on Aug. 24, 1891, when it was reentered as No. 122875. On Jan. 14, 1895, 

 it was sent to Mrs. Pierre L. Jouy, but was again returned on Dec. 14, 1907, 

 to be reentered for the second time as No. 208218! 

 Cardinalis cardinalis sinaloensis Nelson 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 13: 28, May 29, 1899. 

 ^Richmondena cardinalis sinaloensis (Nelson) . See Hellmayr, Cata- 

 logue of birds of the Americas 11: 73, 1938. 

 164375. Adult female. Culiacan, State of Sinaloa, Mexico. Mar. 18, 

 1899. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. Original number 6279. 

 Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Cardinalis cardinalis mariae Nelson 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 12: 10, Jan. 27, 1898. 

 =Richmondena cardinalis mariae (Nelson). See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11: 73, 1938. 

 156907. Adult male. Maria Madre Island, Tres Marias Islands, eastern 

 Pacific Ocean off the State of Nayarit, Mexico. May 3, 1897. Col- 

 lected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward A. Goldman. Original num- 

 ber 4149. Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Cardinalis Virginianus var. coccineus Ridgway 



American Journal of Science and Arts (3) 5 (25) : 39 (footnote) , Janu- 

 ary 1873. 

 =Richmondena cardinalis coccinea (Ridgway) . See Hellmayr, Catalogue 



of birds of the Americas 11 : 69, 1938. 

 28037. Adult male. Hacienda "Mirador" (near Vera Cruz), State of 

 Veracruz, Mexico. Entered into the museum register on Mar. 24, 1863. 

 Collected by Carl C. W. Sartorius. Original number 63. 

 29702. Adult (sex not indicated, but apparently male). Mexico. En- 

 tered into the museum register on Aug. 1, 1863. Collected by Auguste 

 Salle? Original number 100. Received from Auguste Salle. 

 29824. Adult male. Mexico. Entered into the museum register on 

 Oct. 15, 1863. Collected by Henri L. F. de Saussure. Received from 

 Henri L. F. de Saussure. 

 Ridgway gave no indication of the number of specimens examined by 

 him, but gave the range of his new form as "eastern coast, from Mirador 

 to Honduras" (in the text) and as "Atlantic coast of middle America, from 

 Xalapa to Honduras; Yucatan" (in the footnote). He thus must have had 

 a composite series that would nowadays be divided among coccinea, littoralis, 

 yucatanica, and flammigera! 



In The American Naturalist 7: 617, October 1873, Ridgway revised the 

 genus and gave the range of coccinea as "Eastern Mexico (Mirador; Yuca- 

 tan; 'Honduras')." 



In his "Manual of North American birds" (pp. 442-44-3), he described 

 yucatanica from Yucatan, and corrected the range of coccinea to "Eastern 

 and central Mexico (north to Mirador)," thus implicitly restricting the type 



