444 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



parts light brownish gray (without any red). Young : Like adult female, but bill 

 more or less dusky. Length 7.50-8.75, wing 3.60-3.85, tail 4.35-4.80. Nest and 

 eggs like those of Cardinalis, but the latter smaller, averaging .94 X -73. Hab. 

 Northern Mexico and contiguous border of United States, from southern Texas to 

 southern Arizona and Lower California.. 594. P. sinuata BONAP. Texan Cardinal. 



GENUS HAB I A KEICHENBACH. (Page 383, pi. CXI., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Adult males with head, wings, and tail black ; two broad 

 bands across wing, patch at base of quills, and terminal portion of inner webs of 

 outer tail-feathers, white ; under wing-coverts rose-pink or gamboge-yellow. Adult 

 females with wings and tail similar, but black duller and white markings more re- 

 stricted ; other black portions of male replaced by brownish, streaked with dusky ; 

 under wing-coverts saffron-yellow or lemon-yellow. ; breast streaked. Nest a very 

 thin saucer-shaped structure, composed of wiry rootlets, etc., in bushes or low trees. 

 Eggs 2-4, bluish green or greenish blue, speckled with clove-brown, vandyke-brown, 

 or burnt-umber. 



a 1 . Under wing-coverts rose-red (male) or saffron-yellow (female). 



Adult male : Head, neck, back, wings, and tail uniform deep black, the 

 wings and tail varied with white, as described above; breast (some- 

 times throat also) and under wing-coverts pure rose-red ; rest of lower 

 parts, with rump, pure white. Adult female : Black of male replaced by 

 dull brownish, streaked with dusky ; breast brownish white, streaked 

 with dusky ; under wing-coverts pale salmon-yellow or saffron-yellow. 

 Young male, first autumn : Wings and tail as in adult male ; head, neck, 

 and back brown, streaked with black ; throat and sides brownish white, 

 or pale brownish, streaked with black ; chest more or less extensively 

 tinged with rose-red; under wing-coverts pale rose-red or rose-pink. 

 Length 7.00-8.50, wing 3.90-4.15, tail 3.25-3.55. Eggs .95 X -67. Sab. 

 Eastern North America, north to Canada, breeding from northern 

 United States northward; south, in winter, through Cuba and Middle 

 America to northern South America. 



595. H. ludoviciana (LiNN.). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



'. Under wing-coverts clear gamboge-yellow, or lemon-yellow. 



Adult male: Head black, the throat, and sometimes a postocular stripe 

 (occasionally a stripe on middle of crown also), light cinnamon-ochra- 

 ceous ; wings and tail black, varied with white, as in H. ludoviciana ; 

 back mixed black and light cinnamon (sometimes uniform black) ; rump, 

 collar round hind-neck, and most of lower parts uniform buffy cinna- 

 mon ; belly and under wing-coverts lemon-yellow ; under tail-coverts 

 white. Adult female: Above dusky grayish brown, streaked, especially 

 on back and middle line of crown, with pale fulvous or buffy ; beneath 



