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EUETHEI'A. (Gr. evr]6eia, euetheia, guilelessness, simplicity, innocence.) Grass Quits. 

 Bill small, acute, culmeu slightly convex, commissure about straight to the angulation at base. 

 Wings short, rounded, 2d-5th primaries subequal and little longer than 1st, 6th, 7th. Tail 

 still shorter, about even. Tarsus if anything shorter than middle toe and claw; lateral toes 

 subequal to each other in length, scarcely reaching base of middle claw. West Indian and 

 tropical American genus of diminutive finches, two of which occur casually in Florida. (Pho- 

 niparu of previous eds. of the Key, and of most writers ; but Phonipara Bp. Consp. Av. i, 

 p. 494, July .30, 1850, is antedated by Euetheia Reich. Syst. Av. pi. Ixxix, fig. 13, June 1, 

 1850, the correct form of wliich is Euethi'a Cab. Mus. Heiu. i, 1851, p. 146.) 

 E. bi'color. (Lat. fcicoZor, of two colors.) Black-faced Grass Quit. Adult (J : Upper 

 parts, including exposed surfaces of wings and tail, dull olivaceous, passing on face, throat, and 

 breast, into sooty-black, fading on other under parts into olive-gray, more or less varied with 

 whitish; wings and tail unmarked; no decided demarcation of colors and no yellow anywhere. 

 Bill blue-black ; feet dark brown. 9 lighter olivaceous, passing to olive-ashy where $ is 

 black; bill pale below; feet light brown. Length about 4.00; wing 2.00-2.10; tail 1.75. 

 West Indies and of rare or casual occurrence in southern Florida, where it was taken in 1871 

 by C. J. Maynard. One of the common House Finches in various West Indian Islands ; nest 

 in bushes and shrubbery, large, domed, with lateral entrance; eggs 3-6, 0.65 X 0.50, white, 

 speckled with umber-brown. {Phonipara zena of 2d-4th eds. of the Key, and most American 

 writers, after Fringilla zena Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 183, as based on Catesby, 

 1731, pi. 37 (but not F. zena Linn. ihid. p. 181, which is the Bahaman Tanager now called 

 Spinadalis zena); F. bicolor Linn. 12th ed. p. 324; Phonipara bicolor Bp. Consp. i, 1850, 

 p. 494 ; Euethia bicolor Gundlach, J. f. 0. xxii, 1874, p. 312; A. 0. U. Lists, 1st and 2d eds. 

 1886 and 1895, No. 603 or [603]) : see Auk, Jan. 1885, p. 48. 



E. cano'ra. (Lat. canorits (masc.) or canora (fem.), singing, tuneful, melodious; canor, 

 song, melody; cano, 1 sing.) Melodious Grass Quit. Adult ^: Upper parts bright 

 olive-green ; lower parts gray, whitening on the crissum ; most of head black ; a black pecto- 

 ral band, and a broad bar of bright yellow curving upon each side of the head behind the ears 

 to the eyes. 9 similar, but the black of the ^ replaced by chestnut-brown, the yellow curve 

 paler or broken. About the size of the last. A Cuban Quit, one specimen of which was taken 

 on Sombrero Key, Florida, April 17, 1888, by M. E. Spencer: see Auk, July, 1888, p. 322. 

 {Lo.ria canora Gm. S. N. I. 1788, p. 858, based on the Brown-cheeked Grosbeak of Brown, 

 111. 1776, ])1. xxiv, fig. 1; Phonipara canora Bp. 1850; Euetheia canora Brewer, 1860; 

 CouES, Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 900; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. [603. 1]). 

 PYRRHULO'XIA. (Lat. pijrrhula ■}- hxia ; pyrrhula, a bullfinch; loxia, a cross-bill. 

 Gr. TTvppos, purhros, red ; 'Koalas, loxias, crooked.) Bullfinch Cardinals. Pyrrhu- 

 LOXIAS. Bill very short and stout, hooked almost like a Parrot's, its depth at base exceeding 

 its length ; under mandible deeper than upper at nostrils ; culmen curved almost to the quad- 

 rant of a circle ; commissure forcibly angulated in advauce of nostrils ; gonys about straij^ht. 

 Otherwise generally like Cardinalis. Colors grayish and red; head crested; sexes unlike. 

 One large species, with two subspecies. 



P. sinua'ta. (Lat. sinuata, bent, bowed, curved ; simif, a bend, hay: alhiding to tlie liiU. 

 Fig. .309.) Beckham's Cardinal. Arizona Pyrruuloxia. Like the common Bullfinch 

 Cardinal or Texan Pyi"rhuloxia as below described ; said to difler in lighter and browner tone 

 of tlie gray parts, greater extent of red on tail, little if any blackish suffusion in red of the cap- 

 istrum of ^, and lighter red of crest ; 9 less grayish on fore breast and along sides. <?, wing 

 3.60-.3.90; tail 4.25; depth of bill 0.51. S. W. Texas, S. New Mexico, S. Arizona, and 

 soutliward. Tliis is the true P. sinuata, originally described by Bonaparte from W. Mexico 

 as Cardinalis sinuatus, and erroneously renamed P. simtata beckhami by Ridcw. Auk, Oct. 

 1887, p. 347; CouES, Key, 4th ed. 1890, \^. 90(»: A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 189.5, No. 594 a.- 



