aaa . BANGS — LOUISIANA CARDINAL 7 
641). My measurement of ‘‘culmen from base” is about one millimeter 
shorter than that of Ridgway, but in a large series of Florida birds that I have 
just measured my “‘culmen from base ”’ falls short of Ridgway’s for his Cardi- 
nalis cardinalis floridanus by just about one millimeter. Thus Ridgway and 
I have found the same difference between series from Louisiana and Florida, 
and I therefore suspect that, in some way, we use slightly different methods 
in taking this measurement. 
