BIBDS OF KOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 53 



\_Curvirosira americana.l Ya,r. mexicana CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 129. 



Loxia curvirostra . . . var. mexicana Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 143«. — Hen- 

 SHA-n-, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 158 (Mt. Graham, s. 

 Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 248 (Jit. Graham, s. Arizona). 



Loxia curvirostra, var. mexicana Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. K". Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 488, part. — Henshaw, Am. Sportsman, Feb. 20, 1875, 328 

 (pine region of Arizona). 



[Loxia curvirostra, var. americana} c. mexicana Coues, Birds K". W., 1874, 109, 

 part (synonymy). 



Loxia curvirostra mexicana Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 

 176; Nom.N.Am.B., 1881, no. 172a.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 200.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 193 (Chiricahua Mts., s. 

 Arizona). 



L. [pxial c. [y.rvirostra'] mexicana Coues, Key N". Am. Birds, 1884, 350, part. 



[Loxia CTudrostra] var. mexicana Dubois, Bull. i\Ius. Boy. Belg. , Oct. , 1882, 7 (syn. ; 

 geog. range) . 



Curvirostra mexicana Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (alpine region 

 of Vera Cfuz, Mexico). 



Loxia americana (not Curvirostra americana Wilson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1864, 174 (Valley of Mexico). 



[Loxial americana Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34. 



Curvirostra americana Sumichrast Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (alpine reg., 

 Vera Cruz). 



Loxia curvirostra stricklandi Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. , viii, no. 23, Sept. 2, 

 1885, 354 (substitute forname mexicana, preoccupied). — American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 521a (part). — Scott, Auk, iv, 1887, 

 197 (Sta. Catalina Mts., s. Arizona).— Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 258 (MogoUon 

 Mts., Arizona, breeding in pine belt). — Meeriam, North Am. Fauna, no. 3, 

 1890, 40 (Grand Canyon of the Colorado), 95 (San Francisco Mt., in balsam 

 belt). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phila., 1890, 215 (Chalchicomula, Vera 

 Cruz, 9,000 ft.) .—Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. , x, 1898, 41 (Las Vigas, Vera 

 Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



Loxia stricklandi Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 174, part (Arizona). 



Loxia curvirostra (not of Linnseus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 435, 

 part. 



LOXIA LEUCOPTERA Gmelin. 

 ■WHITE-WINGED CKOSSBIXL. 



Wings black or nearly so, marked with two conspicuous broad 

 bands of white across tips of middle and greater (sometimes also last 

 row of lesser) coverts; tertials also more or less marked at tips with 

 white, except in worn plumage; upper tail-coverts and tail black or 

 nearly so, with narrow paler edgings. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, median portion of back, rump, and most 

 .of under parts red (usuallj^ pinkish red or light carmine, occasionally 

 more orange-red, rarely orange-yellowish); abdomen and flanks pale 

 grayish or dull white, the latter more or less streaked with dusk}-; 

 under tail-coverts black, broadlj- margined with white (sometimes 

 tinged with pink); scapulars black, this color extending across the 

 lower back; lores, part of orbital region, and spot at end of auricular 



