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indistinct externallj^ ; 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, Urgaticus. The latter, the Vermilion 

 Flycatcher, GardelUna {Urgaticus) 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, G. rubrifrons, is one of the many interesting 

 additions to our fauna lately made by Mr. Henshaw. 



Red-faced "Warbler 



Cardelllna rubrifrons 



Mnscicapa rubrifrons, <Kr. Sixt. Sp. Tex. B. 1841, pi. 7, f. 1. 



Setopbaga rubrifrons, Bd. Stansb. Bep. GSL. 1852, 329. 



Cardelllna rubrifrons, Set PZS. 1855, 66.— Bd. BNA. 1858, 306.— M. PZS. 1858, 299 



(Parada).— Sci. PZS. 1859, 374 (Oaxaca).— ^cJ. Cat. AB. 1861, 37.— .B<J. Rev. AB. 1865, 



26i.—Salv. Ibis, 2d ser. ii. 1866, 192 (Gnatemala).— HomA. Zool. Expl. W. 100 Merid. 



1876,211 (Arizona). 

 Baslleuterus rubrifrons, ? Scl PZS. 1859, 363 (Xalapa). 

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



187.5, 156 (Arizona). 

 Cardelllna amlcta, DiOus, " Esq. Orn. 1850, pi. 25 ".— JBp. CA. 1.1850, 312. 

 Parus erytbropls, ImM. " Mus. Berol." • 



Hab. — From Soathern ArizoDa through Mexico to Guatemala. 



On. SP. — S 9 Ginerea ; nucha, uropygio, partibusque inferiori- 

 bus albis, plus minusve rosaceotinctis ; capite rubra, cucuUo nigra; 

 alis cauddque fusco griseis, albida limbatis, alis alba fasciatis. 



S 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. 



'Cardelllna (Ergatlcns) rubra. —Vermilion Flyeatcbcr. 



Setopbaga rubra, Sw. Philos. Mag. i. 1827, 363 ; Isis, 1834, 784.— Bp. PZS. 1837, iii (Guate- 



mala).— .Bd. Stansb. Eep. GCI.. 1852, 329.— &i. PZS. 1855, 65. 

 Cardelllna rubra, Bp. CA. i. 1850, 312.— Oass. 111. i. 1854, 265, pi. 43.— &I. PZS. 1856, 292 



(El Jaoale) ; 1858, 299 (Paroda) ; 1859, 363 (Xalapa) ; 1859, 374 (Oaxaca).— Bd BNA. 



1858, 296.— ScJ. Cat. AB. 1861, 38.— Sci. PZS. 1864, 173 (City of Mexico).— Bd. Eev. AB. 



1865, 264 (type of subg. Ergatims). 

 Baslleuterus ruber. Cab. MH. i. 1850, 18. 



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

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



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

 Sylvia argyrotls, "lUiger". 

 Vermilion Flycatcber, Cais. I. c — Bd I. c. 



