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dull vermilion with ochreous tips ; sides of face and ear-coverts also 

 dull ochreous, the latter rather more ashy like the sides of the neck ; 

 lores dusky or ashy hlackish, extending in a line across the base of 

 the forehead, and downwards along the base of the cheeks on to the 

 throat, which is also ashy blackish ; remainder of the under surface 

 of body ochreous buff, washed with vermilion, the centre of the 

 abdomen dull white ; thighs washed with vermilion ; under tail- 

 coverts ochreous buff ; axillaries and under wing-coverts pale rosy 

 vermilion ; quills dusky below, pale vermilion along the inner web. 

 Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3 - G, tail 3*9, tarsus 1. 



The pair of birds from Jalapa aud a male from Eastern Mexico 

 are rather smaller than North-American specimens, and have a much 

 narrower frontal line of black ; they are therefore intermediate 

 between C. cardinalis and C. igneus. The male has the wing 3*4 

 inches compared with 3'6-3'8 inches as found in North-American 

 specimens. I have included them under the race of C. coccineus. 



Hah. Eastern United States, north to New Jersey and the Ohio 

 Valley (casually further), west to the plains. (A. 0. U. Chech-list.) 



a,b. (J 2 a< l. sk. North America. Lord Odo Russell [P.]. 



c, cl. $ 2 ad. sk. Washington, D.C. (Sm. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



nos. 25206, 25303). 

 e. 2 ad.sk. Virginia, Dec. 25 (D. W. U.S. Nat. Museum [P ,]. 



Scott; Sm. no. 79328). 

 /. S juv. sk. Mount Carmel, Illinois, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



July 29, 1875 (E. W. 



Nelson), 

 g. c? ad. sk. Wheatland, Indiana, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



18 (R. Ridgway; Srn. 



no. 90316). 

 h. $ ad.sk. Knox Co., Indiana, April U.S. Nat. Museum [P.], 



21 (R. Ridgway; Sm. 



no. 82238). 

 i. cS ad. sk. Indian Territory, Dec. 24, R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. [P.! 



1884. 

 k. d ad. sk. Kendall Co., Texas, Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 



25 (N. C. Brown). 

 I, m. $ $ ad. sk. Florida. W. B. Dismore, Esq, 



[P.]. 

 n. c? ad. sk. [N. America]*. Sclater Coll. 



Subsp. a. Cardinalis coccineus. 



Cardinalis virginianus (nee L.), Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 193; Lawr. Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 201 (1868); Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 27 (1873, pt.) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 444 ; Salvin $ 



God man, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 340 (1884). 

 Cardinalis virginianus, var. coccineus, Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 299 (1874) ; Coues, B. A 7 .- West, p. 172 



(1874). 



* Prom Trinidad (Lord Harris : Scl. Cat. no. 591 b). Doubtless a caged bird . 



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