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digenous to California, but C. cardinalis has been introduced there, and is said 
to have become established in the neighborhood of Galt and Stanhope. 
Mr. Frazar took four nests of C@. c. igneus at San José del Rancho in July, 
the first on the 14th, the last on the 20th of the month. Three were in 
bushes, the fourth in a small tree, the height above the ground varying from 
four to ten feet. They all closely resemble nests of the eastern Cardinal. 
The eggs, three in number in each instance, were all fresh or but slightly incu- 
bated. They average .96 by .72 with extremes of 1.01 by .73 and .93 by .70. 
The color and markings vary considerably with the different specimens, all of 
which are closely matched by eggs of C. cardinalis in my collection. In fact, 
I cannot detect even an average difference between the eggs of the two forms, 
although Dr. Brewer, writing of those of igneus taken by Mr. Xantus, says, 
“Their markings are larger, and more of a rusty than an ashy brown, and the 
purple spots are fewer and less marked than in C. virginianus [C. cardinalis].” } 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Rivew. 
St. Lucas PYRRHULOXIA. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata (not Cardinalis sinuatus BONAPARTE) BatrD, Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila., 1859, 3801, 804 (Cape St. Lucas). Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 236, 
237, part (Cape St. Lucas). Cours, Check List, 1873, 41, no. 202, part; 
2d ed., 1882, 60, no. 298, part. Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. 
Amer. Birds, II. 1874, 96, part (breeding at Cape St. Lucas; crit.). Ripe- 
way, Nom. N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 1881, 27, no. 243, 
part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1888, 541 (crit.) Brxprne, Jbid. (Cape 
Region); VI. 1883, 545 (Cape Region). Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.- 
Amer., Aves, I. 1884, 343, part (Lower Calif.). A. O. U.,Check List, 1886, 
286, no. 594, part. Sarre, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XII. 1888, 158-160, part. 
[Pyrrhuloxia] sinuata Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 150, 151, part (Cape St. 
Lucas). 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae Ripeway, Auk, IV. 1887, 347 (orig. descr.; type 
from San José) ; Man, N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 606 (descr.; S. Lower 
Calif.) ; Birds N. and Midd. Amer., pt. I. 1901, 627, 628 (descr.; Cape St. 
Lucas district). A.O. U.Comm.,Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 14; Check List, 
abridged ed., 1889, and 2d. ed., 1895, no. 594b. Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. 
Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 304 (Cape St. Lucas; Cape Region). Couzs, Key N. 
Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 900. 
[Pyrrhuloria sinuata] var. peninsula Dusors, Synop. Avium, fasc. IX. 1901, 619 
(Basse-Californie). 
The characters by which Mr. Ridgway has proposed to distinguish the 
Pyrrhuloxia of Lower California prove reasonably constant in my series. 
The form peninsulae, however, does not differ nearly so much from sinwata 
as the latter does from texana. 
1 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, II. 1874, 108. 
