20. 



REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS 



[part I. 



Cardelliiia riitoiifioiis. 



Miiscicapa ruhrijrons, Giraud, Birds Texas, 1841, pi. vii, fig. 1 (N. E. 



Mexico). — CaTclellina rubrifrons, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1855, 6G ; ib. 



1858, 299 (Oaxaca) ; 1859, 374 (do.).— Ib. Catal. 1861, 37, uo. 229. 

 Cardelhna amicta, ("Ddbus, MSS."), Box. Cousp. 1850, 312. 

 Parus erythropis, Light. MSS. (Mas. Berlin). 



Hah. Mexico and Guatemala. 



(No. 29,708.) Above grayisli-ash ; a nuchal patch, rump and under parts, 

 white, more or less tinged with rosy. Head and neck all round bright red, 

 crossed however by a hood of black on the top of head, passing down over the 

 ears, leaving the forehead, lores, eyelids, and sides of the neck red. There is 

 no red on the occiput, the white of the nape immediately succeeding the black. 

 Inside of wings white, and an ashy white band across the median wing 

 coverts. Sides of body ashy. Female similar, but duller in color. 



Length, 5.00; wing, 2.77; tail, 2.75 ; graduation, .14 ; difference between 

 1st and 3d (longest) quills, .12 ; bill from forehead, .45, nostril, .27, gaj)e, .48 ; 

 tarsus, .70; middle toe and claw, .54. 



Smith- 

 souian 



No. 



29,708 

 30,702 360 



Sex 

 and 

 Age. 



Locality. 



Mexico. 

 Totouicapani, Guat. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Collected by 



A. Salle. 

 0. Salvia. 



Ergaticus, Baird. 



Ergaiicua, Baird. (Page 237.) (Type Setophagn rubra, Sw.) 



Bill very short, and rather slender ; the culmen, however, and commissure 

 curved from the base. 'Rictal bristles well developed, reaching midway from 

 nostril to tip. Wings rather shorter than the nearly even, somewhat rounded 

 tail ; the 3d and 4th quills about equal ; the 1st a little shorter than the 6th. 

 Tarsi lengthened ; the middle toe without claw half the tarsus. 



This form differs from typical CardeUina in much slenderer, 

 though somewhat similarly shaped bill, greater development of rictal 

 bristles, considerably shorter and more rounded wings, etc. In some 

 respects it resembles the section Idiotcs of Basileuterus, but may 

 properly be separated. 



CardeUina rubra. 



Setophagn rubra, Swains. Phil. Mag. I, 1827,368 (eastern Mexico). — 

 Cassin, 111. Birds Cal. Texas, I, 1854, 266, pi. ^\\\\.— CardeUina 

 rubra, Bon. Consp. 1S50, 312.— Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1856, 292 (El 



