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Hab. Southern portion of jMiddle Province of" United Stiites, and sontli to Colima and 

 Mazatlan. 



This species, dedicated l>v 'Sh. Robert Eidgwa)' to Dr. J. CI. Cooper, in an 

 analytical monograph of the red Pi/rroigas, may be readily distingni.shed 

 from P. astira npon slight comparison. Tlie size is mucli larger (length, 

 S.Gd, instead of 7.25 ; wing, 4.24, instead of 3.81), the hill especially so, 

 being 0.84 along the cidmen, instead of 0.70, as in P. ccstiva. The colors 



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also differ very materially from those of ccstiva; the red of the head 

 above being scarcely different from that of the throat, instead of being 

 purplisli-dnsky like the back, as in ccstiva. The \\h\<^ also is much more 

 pointed than in a'stiru, the ]irimaries extending 1.16 beyond the tertiaries, 

 instead of 0.84. The third quill is generally longest, but in some specimens 

 the second and third are equal. In P. ccstiva the second is generally 

 longest. (Baird.) 



This beautiful Ijird I found qiute common, after April 25, 18G1, at 

 Fort Mojave, Colorado Valley, lat. 35°. They then frequented chiefly the 

 tall cotton-woods, feeding on insects, and occasionally flying down to the 

 Lnrrca bushes after a kind of liee found on them. Dr. Cones obtained the 

 same species at Los Finos in New Mexico, and it has also been found at 

 jMazatlan and Colima. 



They have a call-note, sounding like " Ke-dik," which singularly enough 

 means, in the language of the Mojave natives, " Come here." They also 

 sing in a loud, clear tone, and a style inucli like that of the robin, liut with 

 the faculty of making the soitnd appear very far distant, which is a protec- 

 tion to birds of such bright plumage. 



