408 MNIOTILTID^. 



more crimson ou the forehead and lores ; the head somewhat mottled 

 with blackish bases to the feathers, with which is .associated a 

 crimson tint ; feathers round the eye hoary whitish ; ear-coverts, 

 sides of neck, throat, and chest of the same silvery rosy appearance 

 as the head ; the breast also of the same colour, but mottled with 

 darker crimson centres to the feathers ; remainder of under surface 

 of body crimson, the under tail-coverts mottled with dusky centres 

 to the feathers ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dusky smoky 

 brown, edged with pale rose-colour ; quills dark brown below, 

 whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-45, tail 2-3, tarsus 0"75. 



Hah. Highlands of Guatemala, Central America. 



a. Ad. sk. Guatemala (0. Salvin). Sclater Collection. 



h. c? ad. sk. Volcau de Fuego, Guatemala, Sclater Collection. 

 Sept. 4(0. Salvin). 



c. Ad. sk. Volcan de Fuego, Nov. (O. S. ^- Salvin-Godman CoU. 



F. D. G.) 



d. 2 ad. sk. Upper Cbirostemou forest, Volcan Salvin-Godman Coll. 



de Fuego, Nov. 20 (O. S.). 



e. S ad. sk. Chilasco, Vera Paz, Jan. (0. S. S,- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



F. D. G.). (Type of species.) 



f. Ad. sk. Near Solola,' Guatemala, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. S.). 



19. CARDELLINA. 



Type. 



Cardellina, DuBus, Esq. Orn. pi. 25 (c. 1850) C. rubrifrons. 



Range. Central America : Guatemala and Mexico. Occurs also 

 in Southern Arizona in the United States. 



1. Cardellina rubrifrons. 



Muscicapa i-ubrifrons, Girand, Sixteen B. Texas, pi. 7. fig, 1 (1841). 

 CardeUina amicta, BuBus, Esq. Orn. pi. 25 (c. 1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 312 (1850). 

 Parus eiythi-opis, LicM. Mvs. Berol., teste Bp. Ccmsp. i. p. 312 (1850). 

 Setopbaga rubrifi-ous, Baird in Stansb. Hep, Ch-eat Slave L. p. 329 



(1852). 

 CardeUina rubrifrons, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855,. p. 66, 1858, p. 299, 1859, 



p. 374; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 37 (1862); Baird, Revieto Amer. B. 



p. 264 (1865) ; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 192 ; Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl Av. 



Keotr. p. 11 (1873) ; Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 99 ; Hensh. List B. Ariz. 



p. 156 (1875); id. Zool. E.rpl. W. 100th Merid. p. 211 (1875); 



Coues, B. Color. Vail. p. 331 (1878) ; Salv. ^- God7n. Biol. Centr.- 



Amer., Aves,i.-p. 162 (1881) ; Bidffw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, 



p. 19 (1881) ; Copies, C7ieck-list N. Amer. B. p. 41 (1882) ; id. Key 



N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 314 (1884). 

 Basileuterus rubrifrons, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 363. 

 Setopbaga amicta, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 243, no. 3531 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above delicate slaty grey, the lower 

 back and rump white ; wing-coverts slaty grey, the lesser wing- 

 coverts tipped with white, forming a bar ; the greater series blackish, 



