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SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — PA SSERES — OSCINES. 



Fig. 202. — Painted Redstart. (Ad. nat. 

 del. H. W. EUiott.) 



Huachuca Mts. of Arizona. Nest on ground, usually under a projecting stone, or in a bank 

 near water; large, flat, shallow, of bark, weed-fibre, grasses, and a few hairs. Eggs 3-4, 0.65 



X 0.50, pure white, speckled and wreathed with pale red- 

 dish-brown ; Apr.-June. 



S. minia'ta. (Lat. miniata, miniated, rubricated, 

 marked with red.) Red-bellied Redstart. Adult 

 (J 9 • Diirk bluish-ash or slate-gray above, and on the 

 sides below. A square patch of chestnut on crown. 

 Forehead and sides of head, with whole fore-neck and 

 sides of jugulum black; breast and belly vermilion red; 

 lining of wings and tips of under tail-coverts white. 

 Wing-feathers dusky; tail-feathers black with the lat- 

 eral one white, and more restricted white areas on the 

 next two. Very young : Sooty blackish, little darker on 

 the head, the dark parts of the adults much overlaid with brown ; most of the under parts- 

 chocolate-brown, lighter on the belly, where the feathers have whitish bases ; wing-coverts 

 tipped with rusty brown ; under tail-coverts pale fulvous. Length 5.10; wing 2.50; tail 3.00; 

 tarsus 0.75. Highlands of Mexico to Texas. An extralimital species, admitted to the 3d ed. 

 of the Key, 1887, p. 870, on the authority of Giraud ; not in either of the Coues Check Lists; 

 A. O. U. Lists, 1886 and 1895, No. [689]. 



CARDELLiI'NA. (Apparently derived from Lat. carduelis, a kind of Finch ; carduus, a 

 thi.stle.) Rose Fly-catching Warblers. Bill Parine in shape, much shorter than liead, 

 high at base, culmen convex throughout ; commissure curved. Rictal bristles stiff, but hardly 

 reaching half-way from nostrils to tip of bill, which shows scarcely a trace of notch. Wings 

 long and pointed ; 2d, 3d, and 4th quills nearly equal and longest; 1st a little longer than 

 5th. Tail shorter than wings, nearly even. Feet small; tarsal scutella indistinct externally; 

 tarsus longer than middle toe and claw. 



C. ru'brifrons. (Lat. ruber, red ; frons, front, forehead. Fig. 203.) Red-fronted Fly- 

 catching Warbler. Adult ^ 9 • Upper parts ash ; wings and tail rather darker, edged 

 with ashy- white; a broader and 

 whiter bar aci'oss ends of median 

 coverts. Below, from breast, white, 

 more or less shaded with ashy on 

 sides, and tinged with rosy. Rump 

 and a nuchal patch white, or rosy- 

 white. Whole head, throat, sides of 

 neck, and fore breast, bright red, 

 with a broad black cap extending 

 down on sides of head, involving 

 eyes and ears, ending in a point be- 

 low auriculars. The border of this 

 cap is squarely transverse against 

 the red of the forehead from eye to 

 eye; behind it, the red reaches up 

 sides of neck, but not across back 

 of neck, the white nuchal area there 



meeting the ashy of back. Bill and ^'S- 203. - Red-fronted Fly-catching Warbler. 



feet dark. In the highest summer plumage, the red is rich carmine, the cap glossy-black ; 

 the under parts are much tinged with rosy ; the rump is snowy-white. Less richly-feathered 



