530 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
very little white at tip (sometimes with none at all); white edgings 
to secondaries much narrower. Hab. Highlands of Guatemala and 
extreme southern portion of Mexico (Chiapas). 
S. picta guatemale SHarrE. Sharpe’s Redstart.! 
v. Adult: Above dark plumbeous, or slate-gray, the forehead, sides of crown, 
lores, chin, and throat black; crown with a patch of chestnut; sides 
and flanks slate-gray ; under tail-coverts dark slate-color, broadly tipped 
with white; breast and belly vermilion-red, varying to orange-red. 
Young: “General color above sooty black, the wing-coverts like the 
back, edged with rusty brown at the tips . . . head a little more dusky 
than the back; sides of face and throat dull ashy, washed with brown 
on the chin; lower throat and sides of body dark chocolate-brown, the 
abdominal feathers paler and more chestnut and with whitish bases ; 
under tail-coverts pale fulvous.” (SHarpe.) Length about 5.00-5.50, 
wing 2.30-2.70, tail 2.50-3.00. 
cl. White of tail more extended, always present on third feather as a broad 
terminal spot, and often present on tip of fourth; breast and belly 
always (?) pure vermilion or scarlet. Hab. Highlands of Mexico, 
north to southern Texas? 
689. S. miniata Swains. Red-bellied Redstart. 
«. White of tail more restricted, reduced to a narrow terminal spot (some- 
times wanting altogether) on third feather and never found on 
fourth; breast and belly usually more orange-red, sometimes of 
a decided orange tint. Hab. Highlands of Guatemala. 
S. miniata flammea Kaur. Kaup’s Redstart? 
Genus CARDELLINA Dv Bus. (Page 483, pl. CX VIII, fig. 3.) 
Species. 
Adult (sexes alike) : Forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and sides of neck rich 
vermilion-red, sometimes inclining to carmine; crown and ear-coverts deep black ; 
occiput whitish ; upper parts uniform ash-gray, the rump white, and middle wing- 
coverts indistinctly tipped with same ; lower parts (except throat) whitish. Young: 
Whole top and sides of head dull umber-brown ; chin, throat, chest, breast, and sides 
of neck paler and more tinged with grayish ; posterior lower parts dull white; back 
and scapulars grayish brown; rump dull white; middle and greater wing-coverts 
conspicuously tipped with buffy. Young in first autumn: Black of crown and ear- 
coverts obsolete or very indistinct, and red parts merely indicated by a slight 
tingeing of red on a smoky grayish ground; upper parts washed with brown; 
otherwise much like adult. Length about 5.00-5.50, wing 2.53~2.80, tail 2.32-2.60. 
1 Setophaga picta, Sw., a. guatemale Sharpe, p. xii.; [Setophaga picta] Subsp. a. Setophaga guatemala, 
and Setophaga guatemale, p. 417 (sub. fig.), SHARPE, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. 1885. 
2 Setophaga flammea Kaur, P. Z. 8. 1851, 50; [Setophaga miniata] Subsp. «. Setophaga flammea SHARPE, 
Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. 1885, 419. 
