86 BULLETrN 50, UNITED STATES NATIOKAL MUSEUM. 



Sci. Phila., 1866, 71 (Fort Whipple, Arizona); Check List, 1873, no. 109; 2d 

 ed. 1882, no. 157; Birds Col. Val., 1878, 355.— Ridgway, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1869, 132 (crit.) ; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 163.— Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 (Vera Cruz, from coast up to 10,000 ft.)— 

 DuGEs, La Naturaleza, i, 1870, 140 (Guanajuato). — Coopek, Orn. Cal., 1870, 

 144 (Arizona, etc.). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 274 (Sierra 

 Madre, bet. Mazatlan and Durango); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 19 

 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca, Sept.; GinetaMts., Chiapas, Jan.). — Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 440, pi. 20, figs. 9, 10.— Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 108 (Apache, etc., Arizona; habits); 

 Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 237 (Apache, Willow Springs, Rock 

 Canon, Bowie i gency. Camp Crittenden, etc. , Arizona; habits; descr. nest) . — 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 68, (Chiricahua Mts., Arizona); 

 vii, 1882, 146 (Santa Rita Mts., Arizona; measurements, etc.) ; Auk, ii, 1885, 

 197 (Santa Rita Mts. ; descr. young female). — Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 



1882, 192 (Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 



1883, 291. 



\_Pyranga] hepatica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 22. — CouBS, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 112. 



Plyranga} hepatica Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 318. 



[Piranga] hepatica Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 60, no. 6838. 



Piranga hepatica American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 609. — 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 140 (Tezuitlan, Puebla, 

 Nov.).— Scott, Auk, v, 1888, 30 (Sierra Santa Catalina, oak belt, 5,000 ft.; 

 remarks on plumage, etc.). — Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 260 ( MogoUon Mts. , 

 Arizona, breeding in pine belt). — Anthony, Auk, ix, 1892, 366 (Apache, s. 

 w. New Mexico). — Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 779 (Barranca 

 Ibarra, Jalisco, Mar. 10). — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 1893, 109 (con- 

 fluence of Beaverdara and Rio Virgin, n. w. Arizona)., — Nehrling, Our 

 Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 17.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 

 40 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



P[iranga'] hepatica Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 455. 



\_Pyranga hepatica'] var. hepatica Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway*, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 434. 



Phloenicosoma^ hepatica Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 25 (Jalapa). 



IPhoenicosoma^ hepatiaim Giebel, Thesaurus Orn., iii, 1876, 110. 



Pyranga azarse (not of D'Orbigny) Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 82 (San Francisco Mts., Arizona). 



PIRANGA TESTACEA TESTACEA Sclater and Salvin. 

 BKICK-RED TANAOER, 



Achilt male. — Above uniform rich brownish red/ most intense on 

 pileum ; remiges duslsy grayish brown, edged with lighter red (dragon's 

 blood) ; under parts bright orange-vermilion, shaded laterally and (more 

 slightly) across chest with darker brownish red; lores dull brownish 

 gray; eyelids light red; maxilla blaciiish with paler tomia; mandible 

 grayish, becoming dusky at tip; legs and feet horn color (in dried 

 skins): length (skins), 175.3-188 (181.6); wing, 89.4-93.5 (91.9); tail, 

 72.4-77 (76.4); exposed culmen, 18.3-18.8 (18.5); depth of bill at base, 

 10.7-11.4 (11.2); tarsus, 20.6-22.6 (21.3); middle toe, 18.5-15.7 (14.7).' 



' About intermediate between madder brown and burnt sienna. 

 " Four specimens. 



