27. CHRYSOMITRIS. 225 



/'. c? ad.; y. J Santa Barbara, California, June U. S. Nat. Museum 

 juv.sk. 25,1875(7/. TV. Henshaw; [P.]. 



Sm. nos. 72106, 72127). 

 h. c?juv. sk. Santa Barbara, July 2, 1875 U. S. Nat. Museum 



(H. TV. Henshaw; Sm.no. [P.]. 



72117). 

 i. <5 ad. sk. Cohuilla Valley, California, G. Frean Morcom, 



Dec. 4, 1886 (F. Stephens). Esq. [P.]. 



k. cJad. sk. Fort Whipple, Arizona, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2, 1864 (E. Coues; Sm.no. 



40831). 



21. Chrysomitris cucullata. 



Carduelis cucullata, Swains. Zool. Illustr. i. pi. 7 (1820-21). 

 Fringilla cubae, Guerin, Man. de Zool. 1835, Aves, pi. 44 ; Cab. J. f. 



O. 1856, p. 10; Guncll. J. f. O. 1859, p. 295. 

 Fringilla cucullata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1841) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 82, no. 7199 (1870). 

 Pyrrhomitris cucullata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 517 ; Gundl. Orn. Cuba, 

 'p. 21 (1876); id.J.f. O. 1878, p. 160; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 207 



(1885). 

 Chrysomitris cucullata, Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 123 (1862) ; id. $ 



Salv. NbmencL Av. Neofr. p. 34 (1873). 



Adult male. General colour above dark vermilion, the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts brighter vermilion than the mantle ; 

 wing-coverts dark vermilion, with black bases ; greater coverts black, 

 tipped with vermilion ; bastard-wing and primary- coverts black ; 

 quills black, vermilion at the base, with black shafts, the inner 

 secondaries entirely black, edged with dull white or pale red at the 

 ends of the outer webs ; tail-feathers black, pale vermilion at the 

 base ; crown of head, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat 

 black ; sides of neck and under surface of body vermilion, the thighs 

 and abdomen white ; under tail-coverts vermilion, whitish at the 

 ends ; under wing-coverts and axillaries vermilion, with ashy bases ; 

 quills below black, palo vermilion towards the base. Total length 

 4 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-4, tail 1*4, tarsus - 5. 



Adult female. Dark ashy grey above, with a slight tinge of ver- 

 milion on the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 vermilion ; wings as in the male, but more orange-scarlet than 

 vermilion on the red parts ; lores whitish ; sides of face and throat 

 pearly grey, whiter on the chin ; fore neck and breast orange-scarlet; 

 lower breast and abdomen white, as also the thighs and under tail- 

 coverts ; sides of body and flanks ashy grey with a brownish tinge ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy whitish, with a slight tinge 

 of red on the lower ones ; quills dusky below, ashy whitish on the 

 inner web, tinged with vermilion towards the base. Total length 

 3*7 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-45, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-5. 



Young males are browner than the adults, all the colours of the 

 full plumage being overshaded with brown, with which the feathers 

 are tipped ; wing-coverts black, tipped with yellowish white ; quills 

 as in the adult male, but yellow at the base instead of red ; under 



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