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SINGING BIRDS— OSCINES. 



Tlie essential cliaracter of this genus lies in the greatly curved, very sliort, 

 and liroad hill, soiuetliing like tliat of PyiThula. In otlier respects like Car- 

 diiialis, Ijut with less graduated wing and longer and hroader tail. 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata, Bonaparte. 



THE TEXAS CARDINAL. 



Canlinalis siiiiiiiliis, Bonaparte, Pr. Z. S. Lond. V. 1837, 111. — L.vwrence, Ann. N. Y. 

 Lye. 18.")1, 116. — Cassin, 111. Texas Birds, I. 204; pi. 33.— Pi/nliiiloxia sinuata, 

 BoNAPAKTE, Consp. 1850, 500. — Baird, Birds N. Aracr. 1858, 508. 



Si'. Cii.\i;. Iluail ivith an c-longatcd, pointed crest, startinii; IVum the erown. Upper 

 ]iarts generally pale asli\'-bruwn ; liuod, sides of ueek, and under parts of body rather 



