CARDELLINA RUBRA C. RUBRIFRONS 331 



indistinct externally ; the middle toe without claw little more 

 than half the tarsus." Baird, I. c. 



I copy the diagnosis of this genus from Baird, whose critical 

 studies of this group furnish very nice discriminations between 

 the several sections of the Flycatching Warblers. As restricted 

 by him, the genus contains but two species, for one of which he 

 proposed a new subgenus, Ergaticus. The latter, the Vermilion 

 Flycatcher, Cardellina (Ergaticus) rubra* has been attributed 

 to Texas since 1841, but is not positively known to have ever 

 occurred over our border; it inhabits Mexico, and may yet 

 be detected in Southern Arizona or New Mexico, as well as, 

 more probably, in Southern Texas. It is a beautiful bird, of 

 carmine-red color all over, with silvery-white ear-tufts. The 

 type of the genus, C. rubrifrons, is one of the many interesting 

 additions to our fauna lately made by Mr. Henshaw. 



Red-faced Warbler 



Cardellina rubrifroiis 



Muscicapa rubrifrons, 6ir. Sixt. Sp. Tex. B. 1841, pi. 7, f. 1. 



Setophaga rubrifrons, Bd. Stansb. Rep. GSL. 1852, 329. 



Cardellina rubrifrons, Scl. PZS. 1855, 66. Bd. BNA. 1858, 306. Scl. PZS. 1858, 299 



(Parada). Sd. PZS. 1859, 374 (Oaxaca). Scl Cat. AB. 1861, 37. Bd. Rev. AB. 1865, 



264. Salv. Ibis, 2d ser. ii. 1866, 192 (Guatemala). Hewh. ZooL Expl. W. 100 Merid. 



1876,211 (Arizona). 



Basileuterus rubrifrons, / Scl. PZS. 1859, 363 (Xalapa). 

 Cardellina rubrifrons, Salv. Ibis, 3d ser. iv. 1874, 99 (Guatemala). Hensh. List B. Ariz. 



1875, 156 (Arizona). 



Cardellina amicta, Dubus, "Esq.Orn.l850,pl.25". Bp. C A. i. 1850, 312. 

 Parus erythropis, Licht. "Mas. Berol." 



HAB. From Southern Arizona through Mexico to Guatemala. 



CH. SP. $ 9 Cinerea ; nuchd, uropygio, partibusque inferior I- 

 bus albis,plus minusve rosaceo tinctis; capite rubro, cucullo nigro ; 

 alls cauddque fusco griseis, albido limbatis, alls albo fasciatis. 



$ 9 : Upper parts ash, the wings and tail rather darker, and edged with 

 ashy- white ; a broader and whiter bar across the ends of the median coverts. 

 Below from the breast, white, more or less shaded with ashy on the sides, 

 and tinged with rosy. Rump and a nuchal patch white, or rosy-white. 



* Cardellina (Ergaticus) rubra. Vermilion Flycatcher. 



Setopbaga rubra, Sw. Philos. Mag. L 1827, 368 ; Isis, 1834, 784. Bp. PZS. 1837, iii (Guate- 

 mala). .Bd. Stansb. Rep. GCL. 1852, 329. Scl. PZS. 1855, 65. 



Cardellina rubra, Bp. CA. i. 1850, 3i2.Cass. 111. i. 1854, 265, pi. 43. Scl. PZS. 1856, 292 

 (El Jacale) ; 1858, 299 (Paroda) ; 1859, 363 (Xalapa) ; 1859, 374 (Oaxaca). Sd. BNA. 

 1858, 296. Scl. Cat. AB. 1861, 38. Scl. PZS. 1864, 173 (City of Mexico). Bd. Rev. AB. 

 1865, 264 (type of subg. Ergaticus). 



Basileuterus ruber, Cab. MIL i. 1850, 18. 



Sylvia miniata, Lafr. " Mag. de Zool. 1836, pi. 54" (not Setophaga miniate of Swainson). 



White-cheeked Titmouse, Parus leucotis, Gir. 16 Sp. Tex. Birds, 1841, not paged, folio 17, 

 pi. 4, f. 1. Leib, Pr. Phila. Acad. i. 1842, 140 (identifies it with Setophaga rubra Sw.). 



Sylvia argyrotis, "Illiger". 



Vermilion Flycatcher, Cats. 1. c. Bd 1. c. 



