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SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF CEXTURUS. 



A. — No red on tlio rump. 



a. V/ithout black about the liead. 



(Ramp and upper taiJ-cot^erts white, immaculate, or ouly sJightlij varied icith hlaclc.) 



1. C. CAHOLINUS. (?: Entire pileum and nape scarlet, paler on the forehead; ab- 



domen tiuged with pinkish red ; inner nebs of middle tail-feathers varied 

 with white. 9 : Similar, but crown ash-gray, the red of the head confined 

 to the forehead, occiput, and nape. Wing, 5.00-5.50; culmen, 1.00-1.20. 

 Rah. — Eastern United States. 



2. C. TRICOLOR. ^ : Crown, occiput, and nape, deep scarlet, sometimes inter 



rupted across the occiput ; forehead dingy yellowish white, abdomen deep 

 scarlet ; both webs of middle tail-feathers broadly barred or transversely 

 spotted with white ; upper tail-coverts Immacxilate w^hite, or scantilj^ barred, 

 lower with dusky V-shaped markings. 9 : Pileum li^jtdrab, growing whitish 

 autei'iorly; otherwise like the <? . Wing, . 4.05-4.55 ; culmen, 0.75-1.10. 

 Udb. — Trinidad and Venezuela to yeragua. 



[15.? C. RUBRiVENTRis. ^i Similarto tricolor, but frontlet, cheeks, and chin bright 

 yellow, separated from the scarlet of the crown by a white frontal baud ; 

 white bars of back, etc., very much narrower than in tricolor; middle tail- 

 feathers without white markings, except toward base of outer webs. Wing, 

 4.75; culmen, 0.80. Hah. — Yucatan. 



[4. ? C. TERRICOLOR. Similar totricolor, butl arger, the bill longer and broader; the 

 lower parts darker olive-brown, the abdomen darker red, and the upper and 

 lower tail-coverts regularly barred with black. Hah. — "Orinoco district or 

 Trinidad."] 



5. C.AURiFRONS. (J: Crown deep scarlet ; nape scarlet, orange, or yellow, coalesced 

 with the scarlet of the crown or separated from it by an occipital band of 

 grayish or olivaceous ; frontlet yellow, orange, or red, separated from the red 

 of the crown by a whitish frontal band ; abdomen tinged with yellow, orange, 

 or red ; markings of the tail-feathers and coverts exceedingly variable. 9 '• 

 Differing in the color of the crown, which is entirely grayish, instead of red. 

 Size exceedingly variable. Hah. — Middle America. 

 a. aurifrons. Red crown-patch usually isolated ; frontlet and abdomen usually 

 yolk-yellow; breast, etc., pale dingy ash, or dull grayish white ; tibiaj and 

 crissum Avitli broad V-shaped marksof black ; inner webs of middle tail-feathers 

 usually solid black ; white bars of upper parts broad, nearly or ([uite as wide 

 as the Idack ones. Wing, 5.20-5.65 ; culmen, 1.20-1.40. i/fl&.— Table-lands 

 of Mexico, north to Southern Texas 

 /?. santacruzi. Red crown-patch usually confluent with the orange-red of the 

 nape; frontlet and abdomen saffron-orange; breast, etc., olive-drab, or deep 

 smoky gray ; tibite and crissum thickly barred with blackish on a dingy yellow- 

 ish ground ; inner webs of middle tail-feathers usually marked, more or less, 

 with white; white bars of upper jiarts much narrower than the black ones. 

 Wing, 5.00-5.75; culmen, .95-1.25. Hah. — Southern Mexico, Honduras, and 

 Guatemala. 

 y. duhius. Crown, occiput, and nape intense scarlet, without any shade of 

 orange ; frontlet scarlet, sej^arated from the red of the crown by a band of 

 nearly pure white ; abdomen, intense scarlet or almost carmine-red ; inner webs 

 of middle tail-feathers usually solid black; white bars of upper parts very 

 much narrower than the black ones ; tibia} and crissum densely barred with 

 blackish. AVing, 4 95-5.40 ; culmen, 1.00-1.30. iTaft.— Yucatan. 

 d. hoffmanni. Red of crown usually isolated, as in afnv/rojfs; frontlet, pale dull 

 yellowish ; lower parts dark colored, with the abdomen saffron yellow as in 

 santacruzi ; (lanks, etc., coarsely barred, as in aurifrons, and white bars of up- 

 per jiarts broad, as in that race ; inner webs ofmiddle tail-feathers edged with 



Proc. Xat. Mus. 81 7 Jwiie g, 1881. 



