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(12.19); depth of bill at base, 7.62-8.13 (7.87); tarsus, 13.95-13.21 

 (13.21); middle toe, 9.91-11.43 (10.67).^ 



Mountains of southwestern Mexico, in States of Durango (El Salto, 

 Chacala, Ciudad Durango), Zacatecas (San Juan Capistrano) and 

 Jalisco (San Sebastian) and Territory of Tepic (Santa Teresa). 



The adult male of this well-marked form resembles in coloration the 

 adult female of S. n. noiat-ics, but the olive-yellowish color of the rump is 

 much more strongly contrasted with the olive-green of the back, and 

 the black of the throat extends much further backward. In fact, the 

 pattern of coloration is precisely the same as in the adult male of 

 S. n. woto^tts, and I therefore believe that the type of S.forreri^ supposed 

 by its describers to be an adult male, is in reality an adult female. At 

 any rate, it agrees minutely in coloration with adult females in the 

 collection of the Biological Survey, obtained in the States of Zacatecas 

 and Jalisco, by Messrs. Nelson and Goldman. 



Chrysomiiris forreri Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, pt. 54, Nov., 

 1886, 429 (Ciudad Durango, Durango; coll. Salvin and Godman).— Shaepe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 222. 



»S'. [pinusl forreri Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 400. 



SPINUS CUCULLATUS (Swainson). 



KED SISKIN. 



Adult male. — Head, all round, including whole throat, uniform 

 black; wings and tail mostly black; rest of upper parts glossy brown- 

 ish vermilion red, brightening into orange-vermilion on rump and 

 under tail-coverts; sides of neck, chest, and lower parts generally 

 bright scarlet or flame scarlet, paler on under tail-coverts; abdomen 

 and thighs white; lesser wing-coverts like back; middle and greater 

 CiO verts broadly tipped with red, forming two distinct bands; basal 

 portion of remiges and rectrices orange chrome or saturn red on outer 

 webs, salmon color on inner webs, forming a conspicuous mark on the 

 wing, especiallj^ on basal portion of primaries; bill horn color, legs 

 and feet similar but paler; length (skins), 101.60-102.87 (102.36); 

 wing, 58.67-59.69 (59.18); tail, 33.02-35.05 (34.04); exposed culmen, 

 9.40-9.66; tarsus, 12.70; middle toe, 10.16. ^ 



Adult female. — "Dark ashy gray above, with a slight tinge of 

 vermilion on the back; lower back, rump, and upper taU-coverts ver- 

 milion; wings and tail as in the male, but more orange-scarlet than 

 vermilion on the red parts; lores whitish; sides of face and throat 

 pearly gray, whiter on the chin; foreneck and breast orange-scarlet; 

 lower breast and abdomen white, as also the thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts; sides of body and flanks ashy gray with a brownish tinge."* 



1 Three specimens. '' Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 222. 



