810 FRINGILLID^. 



Le Cardinal kupp6, Brown, III. Zool. p. 53, pi. 23 (1776). 



Crested Dominican Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 123 



(1783). 

 Loxia cucullata, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 378 (1790). 

 Loxia coronata, var. L. dominicanse, Miller fy Shaic, Cimelia Phys. 



p. 4, pi. 2 a (179G). 

 Crestudo roxo, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 461 (1802). 

 Le Paroare hupped, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 105, pi. lxx. (1805). 

 Fringilla cucullata (nee P. L. S. Mull), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 22 



(1823) ; SarU. Ind. Azara, p. 9 (1847). 

 Calyptrophorus cucullatus, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. xiii. p. 329 (1847) ; 



id. Mm. Hem. Th. i. p. 145 (1850)'; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. 



p. 44 (1854). 

 Spiza cucullata, Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 375 (1849). 

 Paroaria cucullata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 471 (1850) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. 



p. 210 (1856) ; id. Reis. La-Plata St. ii. p. 482 (1861) ; Scl. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 108 (1862); Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 228 (1871); Scl. $ 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1871) ; Bumf. Ibis, 1877, p. 171 ; 



Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 19 ; Sale. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 225 (1882) ; 



White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 598. 

 Passerina cucullata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 97, no. 7440 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, mottled on the hind 

 neck and upper mantle with longitudinal, ovate, whitish centres to 

 the feathers : wing-coverts dusky blackish, externally ashy grey like 

 the back ; bastard-wing black, narrowly edged with ashy grey ; 

 primary-coverts and quills black, edged externally with ashy grey, 

 lighter on the primaries, broader and slightly browner on the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts rather darker ashy grey than the 

 back : tail-feathers blackish, fringed with ashy grey ; crown of 

 head crested, scarlet ; occiput and nape ashy grey, mottled with 

 white centres like the hind neck; lores, feathers round the eye, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and fore neck scarlet, the feathers on 

 the latter part pointed and lanceolate ; sides of neck white, like the 

 sides of the chest and the remainder of the under surface ; sides of 

 body and flanks washed with ashy grey ; thighs ashy externally, 

 white internally ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, slightly tinged with ashy ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 whitish along the inner edge: "bill grey; legs black : iris black" 

 (Alan Peel). Total length 7*5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-8, tail 

 3-1, tarsus 0*95. 



Adult female (Conchitas ; W. H. Hudson). Similar to the male. 

 Total length 7"5 inches, culmen - 65, wing 3 - 9, tail 3-55, tarsus 

 0-95. 



Young. Differs from the male in being browner above, the quills 

 and tail-feathers also browner, the outermost of the latter more 

 distinctly fringed with whitish externally ; head less crested, 

 and the parts which are scarlet in the adult ochreous brown, 

 often intermixed with a few scarlet feathers ; the white of the 

 underparts somewhat sullied, and the under wing- coverts especially 

 washed with brown. 



Hah. Southern Brazil and Argentine llepublic to Bolivia. 



