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Jan. 
64 NELSON, New Birds from Mexico and Guatemala. 
The following are the measurements of two specimens of this 
form. 
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136131 | 2104 | @ es of Oaxaca. | June 15,1894.| Nels. and Goldm.| 61 | 61 13 21 
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143925 | 2601 g | Totolapa, Oaxaca.| Apr. 20, 1895. ae ce 62 | 64 14 21 
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Cardinalis cardinalis littoralis, new subspecies. Coast 
CARDINAL. 
Type, No. 144301, U. S. Nat. Museum, Dept. Agric. coll., g, from Coat- 
zacoalcos, Vera Cruz, Mexico, April 14, 1896. Collected by E. W. Nelson 
and E. A. Goldman (Orig. No. 3690). 
Distribution.— The moist, hot, coast lowlands of Vera Cruz, near Coat- 
zacoalcos and Minatitlan, and undoubtedly ranging into the adjacent 
parts of Tabasco. 
Description — The males can be distinguished at once from the other 
Mexican Cardinals by the intensity of their coloration. With the excep- 
tion of the black throat patch the entire lower surface, the sides and back 
of neck and pileum are of a rich poppy red with a wash of carmine. The 
back including dorsal surface of wings and tail, is intensely rich, dusky 
red. The capistrum is intensely black and a narrow black band connects 
the black of the lores across the forehead. 
The female is similar in coloration to ywcatanicus, but the colors are 
brighter. The black of the capistrum, however, is duller and more of a 
smoky or dingy shade in the only female seen of the new race. 
They are larger and heavier birds than ywcatanicus and approach 
more closely in coloration to saturatus from Cozumel Island than 
to any other known form, but are much more intensely colored 
even than the latter. Specimens of Cardinals obtained at Cate- 
maco and Otatitlan in Vera Cruz, and near Tuxtepec in eastern 
Oaxaca, are from a district lying between the type locality of /tfor- 
alis and the range of coccineus, of the adjacent country to the north, 
and show a gradation between the two forms. 
