BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 629 



(Rio Grande). — Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Texas, etc., 1856, 204, part (San 

 Pedro R. and Ringgold Barracks, Texas; Tamaulipas; Nuevo Leon; not pi. 

 33).— ScLATBR, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 101 (Ringgold Barracks, Texas). 



Pi/rrhuloxia sinuata Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 508, part (Nuevo 

 Leon; Ringgold Barracks, Texas); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 

 ii, 1859, 17, part (do.); Oat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 389, part.— Heekmann, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, 1859, 16, part (San Pedro R., Texas).— 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 491 (Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, Texas). — Butcher, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 150 (Laredo, Texas).— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 

 1870, 236, part.— CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 202, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 298, part.- Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Ilist.N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 95, 

 part, pi. 30, fig. 3.1— McCauley, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iii, 

 1877, 666 (Canoncito Blanco, edge of Staked Plains, n. Texas). — Sennbtt, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 21 (Brownsville and 

 Hidalgo, Texas; habits) ; v, 1879,393 (Lometa, Texas; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i, 1878, 129 (Fort Brown, Texas) .-Brew- 

 ster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1878, 122 (de.scr. young) .—Ridqway, Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 243, part; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 444, part.— 

 Brown, Auk, i, 1884, 122 (Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 343, part (Rio Grande \'alley, Texas; 

 Nuevo Leon). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 594, 

 part (lower Rio Grande Valley) . — Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 680 

 (Corpus Christi and Beeville, Texas; song, etc. ). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val- 

 ley, 1888, 216 (San Antonio, Kagle Pass, Boerne, and San Angelo, Texas). — 

 SHARPE,Cat. BirdsBrit. Mus., xii, 1888, 158, part (Eagle Pass, Laredo, andRing- 

 gold Barracks, Texas). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 339 (San Antonio, Texas, 

 common resident).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 110 (Corpus 

 Christi).— JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua., xvi, 1894, 779 (Ahualulco, San Luis 

 Potosi, Oct.).— SiNGLEY, Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas, 1894, 372 (Rio Grande 

 City and Hidalgo). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896. 198. 



[Pyrrhuloxia] ainuala CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, part. 



P.^yrrhidoxUi] sinuata Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 393, part. — 

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



Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana RiDCiWAV, Auk, xiv, Jan., 1897, 95 (Corpus Christi, 

 Texas; U. S. Nat. Mua.). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xiv, 1897, 129 (no. 594a). 



Genus CARDINALIS Bonaparte. 



Cardinalis Bonaparte, Saggio di una Distr. Met. An. Vert., 1831, 53, 141 (nomen 

 nudum); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 111. (Type, Loxia cardinalis Lin- 

 naeus. ) 



Rather large, conspicuouslj^ crested, thick-billed Fringillidse, with 

 tail longer than wing, the latter rather short and rounded; adult males 

 bright red, with black eapistrum: adult females with plumage partly 

 red. 



Bill stout, conical, much deeper than broad at base, where its depth 

 is about equal to length of exposed culmen; culmen decidedly, some- 

 times strongly, convex; gonys straight, shorter than distance from 

 nostril to tip of maxilla; maxillary tomium sinuated a little anterior to 



' Evidently colored, however, from a specimen of true P. s. sinuata or P. s.peninsulse. 



