720 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Coloration,. — Upper parts gray, with a nuchal band and the rump 

 white; crown and auricular region black; forehead, lores, chin, throat, 

 and post-auricular region red; sexes alike. 



Mdification. — Terrestrial. 



Range. — Southwestern border of United States to highlands of Gua- 

 temala. (Monotypic.) 



CARDELLINA RUBRIFRONS (Giraud). 

 RED-FACED WARBLER. 



Adult maZe.— Forehead, lores, eyelids, suborbital region (except 

 posterior portion), malar region, chin, throat, upper chest, and sides 

 of neck vermilion or poppy red, jnost intense on forehead; crown, 

 anterior portion of occiput, auricular region, and posterior portion of 

 suborbital region uniform glossy black; a transverse patch or band of 

 white (usually more or less tinged with pink) on nape, partly hidden 

 by the elongated black feathers- of occiput; hindneck, back, scapulars, 

 lesser wing-coverts, and upper rump uniform graj' (varying from 

 slate-gray t mouse gray); lower rump white, sometimes tinged with 

 pink; upper tail-coverts gray (rather paler than back, often with still 

 paler or even sometimes whitish tips, especially the shorter coverts; 

 larger wing-coverts, remiges, and rectrices dusky gray with slate-gray 

 edgings the middle coverts more or less distinctly and rather broadly 

 tipped with white or pale gray; under parts of body white, more or 

 less strongly tinged with pink, especially on breast, shading into gray 

 on sides of breast and anterior portion of sides; bill brownish, the 

 maxilla darker; legs and feet horn brown (in dried skins); len'th 

 (skins), 118-135 (124.5); wing, 65.5-T0.5 (68.1); tail, 57-61 (59.4); 

 exposed culm' n, 8-9 (8.6); tarsus, 17-18.5 (17.7).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male in coloration and often 

 quite indistinguishable, but usually very slightly duller in color and 

 averaging a little smaller; length (skins), 113-126 (121.5); wing, 63-70 

 (66); tail, 55.5-61 (58.5); exposed culmen, 7.5-9 (8.6); tarsus, 17-18.5 

 (17.9).' 



^ Eleven specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average respectively as follows: 



