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ish tips to dorsal feathers. Bill (lee[) coral-rod; feet, horn color. Wing, 

 3.55 ; tail, 4.00 ; culmen, .80 ; bill from nostril, .52 ; depth at base, .67 ; 

 tarsus, 1.00 ; middle toe, 05. 



Another adult $ (No. 102,718) measures as follows: Wing, 3.55; 

 tail, 4.00 ; culmen, .82 ; bill from nostril, .52 ; depth at base, .70 ; tarsus, 

 1.00 ; middle toe, .70. 



Adult ? (No. 102,719, Cozumel, January 23, 1885) : Capistrum black- 

 ish slate ; rest of head raw umber brown, becoming paler and more 

 ochreous on sides of forehead and sides of neck, the latter, also the 

 jugulum and lower parts generally, deep dull ochraceous, darker and 

 more olivaceous along the sides; abdomen paler or bufty ochraceous,. 

 the anal region bufty whitish ; lining of wing pure light vermilion. 

 Longer crest-feathers dark brownish red, with broccoli-brown tips. 

 Kape, back, scapulars, rumj), and upper tail-coverts uniform broccoli- 

 brown ; outer surface of wings dark dull red, the coverts and tertials 

 edged with broccoli-brown. Tail dull dark red, the feathers edged 

 with grayish brown ; bill deep coral-red; feet horn-color. Wing, 3.45; 

 tail, 4.05 ; culmen, .85 ; bill from nostril, .53 ; depth at base, .70 ; tarsus,. 

 1.05 ; middle toe .72. 



Three other adult females measure as follows : Wing, 3.35-3.40 ; tail, 

 3.65-3.95; culmen, .75-80; bill from nostril, .50-.51 ; depth at base,^ 

 .65-.68 ; tarsus, 1.00-1.03 ; middle toe, .05-.75. 



This race is closely related to G. carcUnalis coccineus, Eidgw., from 

 which it is separated chiefly on account of the more somber coloration 

 of the female, that of Yucatan specimens, i:)ro vision ally referred to 

 coccineus, being much more tawny, with still blacker capistrum, and also 

 with much smaller bills. The males of saturatus differ from those from 

 the mainland in the darker and more purplish cast of the dorsal plum- 

 age, the bill being also, as in the females, more robust. 



It is doubtful whether the Yucatan birds of this species should be 

 referred to the true coccineus^ which was based upon specimens from 

 the State of Vera Cruz. The writer has unfortunately been able ta 

 compare only males from the two regions. These agree minutely in 

 coloration, but the Yucatan specimens are much smaller (smaller even 

 than the Cozumel birds), and have relatively smaller bills. More mate- 

 rial is necessary, however, to decide this question. 



The authors of Biologia Gentrali- Americana {Aves, I. j). 340) decline 

 to accept the validity of G. cardinalis coccineus. They express their in- 

 ability to " distinguish between specimens from Jalapa and others from 

 Washington," and add that " as Sumichrast speaks of G. virginiamis 

 as a winter visitor to the State of Vera Cruz, the probability is that 

 the birds of Eastern Mexico and Eastern States are of one species." 

 The latter we do not deny, the name coccineus having been originally 

 bestowed as a trinomial, and is retained as such, for the designation of 

 a geographical race, whose claims, however, to recognition as a very 

 «trcu3gly characterized form are clearly demonstrated by the specimen* 



