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SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF CEXTURUS. * 



A. — No red on the rump. 



a. V/itliout black about the head. 



{Eiimp and upper tail-coverts white, immaculate, or only slightly varied with Macl:) 



1. C. CAROLiNUS. ^ : Entire pileum and nape scarlet, paler on the forehead ; ab- 



domen tinged with jiinkish 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. 

 Hal). — 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 immaculate white, or scantily barred, 

 lower with dusky V-shai)ed markings. 9 : Pileum lig!itdrab, growing whitish 

 anteriorly; otherwise like the ^. Wing, 4.05-4.55; culmen, 0.75-1.10. 

 Hal). — Trinidad and Venezuela to Veragua. 

 [3.? C. RUBRiVENTRis. $ : Similar to tricolor, but frontlet, cheeks, and chin bright 

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

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

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

 4.75; culmen, 0.80. Hub. — Yucatan. 

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

 lower i^arts darker olive-brown, the abdomen darker red, and the upper and 

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

 Trinidad."] 

 5. C. AURiFRONS. (? : 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. Hab. — Middle America. 



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

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

 crissum with broad V-^haped marks of black ; inner webs of middle tail-feathers 

 usually solid black ; white bars of upper parts broad, nearly or quite as wide 

 as the black ones. W'ing, 5.20-5.65 ; culmen, 1.20-1.40. Hab. — Table-lands 

 of Mexico, north to Southern Texas. 



y3. santacruzi. Red crown-patch usually confluent with the orange-red of the 

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

 smoky gray ; tibiaj 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 parts much narrower than the black ones. 

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

 Guatemala. 



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

 orange ; frontlet scarlet, separated 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 sohd black ; white bars of upper parts very 

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

 blackish. Wing, 4.95-5.40; culmen, 1.00-1.30. Hab.— Yucatan. 



d. hoffmanni. Red of crown usually isolated, as in aurifrons; frontlet, pale dull 

 yellowish ; lower parts dark colored, with the abdomen safiron yeUow as iu 

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

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



Proc. Kat. Mus. 81 7 June 3, 1881. 



