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from any other place in Iowa. They returned to Ferry, Iowa, March 
29, and to Denmark, Iowa, April 19. <A set of six eggs was taken at 
Peoria, Ill, May 7. 
In the fall of 1885 a Cardinal was taken at iowa: City, Iowa, October 
29, being the first one captured in that county that was certainly a wild 
bird. At Saint Lonis, Mo., large flocks of these birds were present 
September 23, They were most numerous October 6, and decreased 
Cetober 20. 
594. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata Bonap. [243.] Texas Cardinal. 
The Texas Cardinal is a southern species resident wherever found. 
Inu 1884 it was noted at San Antonio and Eagle Pass, Tex., and its range 
extends thence south and west. It is especially abundant from Eagle 
Pass southward. At Boerne, Tex., Mr. Brown secured a pair in 1883— 
the female February 2, and the male April 5. 
In the spring of 1885 a wale was taken at San Angelo, Tex., April 26. 
This I believe to be its most northern record. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata beckhami Ridgw. [—,] Arizona Pyrrhuloxia. 
The type of this newly described subspecies was taken at El Paso, 
Tex., by Lieut. J. G. Parks, U. S. A. (Auk, Vol. 1V, No. 4, October, 
1887, p. 347). It has been found also in southern Arizona and New 
Mexico. 
595. Habia ludoviciana (Linn.). [244.] Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 
Breeds from about latitude 37° northward; tolerably common in 
Manitoba. The spring migration of this species is evidently carried on 
in anortheasterly direction. It is found in Mexico and Central America 
during the winter; but during the summer it is entirely a bird of the 
eastern province, rarely breeding as far west as eastern Kansas (where - 
it is common during migration). Mr. Ragsdale has never seen it at 
Gainesville, in north-central Texas, and Professor Nehrling does not 
mention it in his Birds of Southeastern Texas. m 
.The southernmost station reporting the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in 
1884 was Saint Louis, Mo., where the first male was noted April 26, 
followed two days later by the bulk of the males. April 29 and 30 they 
appeared in Illinois up to latitude 39° 43’, with an accidental one at 
Waukon, Iowa (lat. 43° 15’); and the first two days of May found 
them in Ilinois north to latitude 40° 08’, and to latitude 41° 40/, in 
Iowa. The advance was quite regular over northern Illinois, Wiscon- 
sin, and Miunesota, bringing the van of males to latitude 44° 22, in 
Wisconsin, and 44° 32’, in Minnesota, May 8. By May 10 they had 
reached Elk River, Miun. (lat. 45° 25’), and May 28 they were noted 
at Portage ja Prairie, Manitoba (lat. 50°), which is nearly as far north 
as the species occurs. The average of the data received from seven 
stations indicates that the arrival of the first female was about five 
days later than that of the first male, while the arrival of the general 
bulk of the species was about one day later. In the south the differ. 
