PASSERES— SYLVICOLIDAE— CARDELLINA KUBRIFRONS. 



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axillars, crissum, tibije, outer tail feathers except at base, and a diminishing 

 space on the second and third, white. 



CARDELLINA RUBRIFRONS (Giraiul). 



Red-raced Warbler. 



Muscieapa ruhrifrons, GiRAUD, Birds Texas, 1841, pi. vii, f. 1 (Northeast Mexico?). 

 Cardellina ruhrifrons, Solat., Proc. Z06I. Soc, 1855, m.—Id., ib., 1858, 299 (Oaxaca).— 



Id., ib., 1859, 374 (Oaxaca).— Id., Cat., 1861, 37, No. 229.— Bd., Rev. Am. 



Birds, i, 18G5, 204. 

 Cardellina amicta, ("Dubus., MSS.")— Bon. Cousp., 1850, 312. 

 Farm erythropis, Light., MSS. (Mus. Berlin). 



Hab. — Mexico ; Guatemala ; Arizona. 



Sp. CHAR. — Male: above, grayish ash; a nuchal patch, rump, and under parts 

 white; the latter, especially, tinged with rosy ; abroad hood of black over top of head, 

 passing down over the ears, and leaving the forehead, lores, eyelids, and sides of neck 

 bright red; inside of wings white, which also tips the middle coverts, thus forming a 

 band; sides of body ashy. Female somewhat duller'. In fall, the white nuchal patch 

 is obscured by an ashy suffusion, and in some specimens is scarcely visible. Iris 

 black; bill black ; lower mandible lighter ; legs dark brown. 



Specimens from Mexico and farther south appear to be peiceptibly brighter. 



Young birds in the first plumage have the ash above i)erceptibly tinged with 

 reddish ; the red on the head in patches, and not well defined. In one specimen (No. 

 103), the greater wing coverts are tipped with white, thus forming a second wing band. 



This is another of the species which was attributed to Texas hj Giraud 



as above cited. Its occui-rence in Arizona is certainly not surprising, 



since it is known to be a common inhabitant of the mountains of Mexico. It 



without doubt follows the trend of the mountain ranges northward, and 



