628 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 178.31-211.58 (197.87); wing, 84.58- 

 90.93 (87.88); tail, 88.65-98.55 (93.98); culnaen, 15.24^15.75 (15.49); 

 tarsus, 22.86-25.40 (24.13); middle toe, 16.26-17.53 (16.76).' 



Adult fe7nale.—'Length (skins), 177.80-181.36 (179.83); wing, 82.04- 

 86.61 (84.07); tail, 90.42-93.47 (91.95); exposed culmen, 14.99-15.24 

 (15.11); tarsus, 22.35-24.64 (23.37); middle toe, 15.49-17.02 (16.26).' 



Cape St. Lucas district of Lower California. 



Pyrrliuloxia dnuata (not Cardinalis itinuatus Bonaparte) Baikd, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 301, 304 (Cape St. Lucas).— Cooper, Orn. Gal, 1870, 236, 

 part (Cape St. Lucas). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 202, part; 2d ed., 1882, 

 no. 298, part. — Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 95, part (Cape St. Lucas). — Ridgway, Nora. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 243, 

 part; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 541 (La Paz, Lower California; crit. ),— 

 Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 541 (La Paz, Lower California).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 343, part (Lower Cal- 

 ifornia). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 158, part (in synonymy). 



IPyrrhuloxia] sinuala Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, part. 



P.[_yrrhuloxia] rniucUa Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 393, part.— 

 Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 444, part. 



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulas Ridgway, Auk, iv, Oct., 1887, 347 (San Jos6, 

 Lower California; U. S. Nat. Mus.); Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 606.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 

 14; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, and 2(1 ed., 1895, no. 5946. 



PYRRHULOXIA SINUATA TEXANA Ridgway. 

 TEXAN PYRRHULOXIA. 



Similai- to /'. s. sinuata but coloration decidedly darker, and bill 

 larger and stouter; adult male with forehead darker red, the lores, 

 orbital region, and malar region (sometimes the chin also) decidedly 

 dusky, sometimes nearly black; upper parts darker and less brownish 

 gray; adult female much grayer as well as darker above than that of 

 P. s. sinuata, and with anterior and lateral under parts, especially the 

 chest, strongly suffused with grayish. 



Adult mafe.— Length (skins) 191.52-205.74 (197.36); wing, 88.39- 

 98.55 (93.73); tail, 93.47-106.93 (99.57); culmen, 15.24-17.02 (16.00); 

 depth of bill at base, 15.24; tarsu.s, 23.88-25.91 (24.89); middle toe, 

 15.49-18.54 (17.02).' 



Adult fmnale.— Length (skins), 180.3^205.74 (192.28); wing, 86.11- 

 96.27 (90.42); tail, 83.82-108.20 (95.76); culmen, 15.24-16.51 (15.75); 

 tarsus, 23.11-25.40 (24.38); middle toe, 16.00-17.53 (16.76).' 



Northeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coa- 

 huila (La Ventura), San Luis Potosi, and Puebla, and southern Texas 

 (north to Nueces, Bee, Bexar, Kendall, and Tom Green counties). 



Cardinalis sinuatm (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., v, 1862, 116 

 (Rio Grande, Texas) .—Baied, inStansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 331 



1 Three specimens. "Eleven specimens. ' Eight specimens. 



