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or directl}' beneath nostril, with nearly obsolete subterminal notch or 

 none at all; mandibular tomium either nearly straight or decidedly 

 convex anterior to its subbasal angle, the latter more or less posterior 

 to the middle portion and with or without a notch in front of it. 

 Nostrils nearly or quite concealed by small frontal feathers. Rictal 

 bristles distinct. Wing rather short (about three and a half to three 

 and three-fourths times as long as tarsus), much rounded (seventh to 

 fourth primaries longest, ninth shorter than second); primaries exceed- 

 ing-secondaries l)y less than length of exposed culmen. Tail lono-er 

 than wing, slightly rounded. Tarsus about equal to or a little longer 

 than middle toe with claw, its scutella distinct; latei-al claws not reach- 

 ing to liase of middle claw; hallux decidedly shorter than lateral toes, 

 its claw shoi'ter than the digit. 



Oohirs. — Adult males entirely red, except black around base of bill 

 or on chin {C. phmiici'iis); adult females brownish above, dull tawny 

 or pale bufi'y below, the crest, wings, and tail dull reddish and under 

 wing-coverts pinkish red (except in C '. />ha'ii/'-i'i/>!): 3'oung not streaked. 



Rnnij(>. — More southern United States to British Honduras; coast 

 district of Colombia and Venezuela; Trinidad. 



The evident gap between Ciwdindlix and Pyrrhidoxia is nearly 

 bridged by 6'.J/>A((';//e/■//^s•, which has the culmen strongly convex, the 

 maxillar\' tomium deeply incised (with notch anterior to the nasal 

 fossfe). and the mandibular tomium convex, with its angle only a little 

 posterior to the middle. ^Vere it not that C. canieus exhibits in these 

 features, as well as in its longer and stitfer crest-feathers, an approach 

 to 0. pJui'iucras. I should be disposed to separate the latter generically 

 from ( '. cii/'d/'/ial/'x. C. (Yirneim is, however, much nearer to (■'. cardi- 

 nal Ik than to C. j>hn'/i/'ci'ii-s. 



The geographic distribution of this genus includes two widely 

 separated arcnis; one embracing the Lower Sonoran Province of North 

 America, from the middle Atlantic coast of the United States to the 

 peninsula of Lower California and south through all wooded pai'tsof 

 Mexico, below th(> pine belt, to Yucatan and British Honduras; the other 

 em))ra<ing the northern part of South America, in Venezuela and 

 Colombia. No form of the genus has been found in any part of the 

 intermediate territorv. A distinct type belongs to each of the areas 

 designated, the South American being, as above stated, almost gener- 

 ically distinct from the North American forms. The latter include 

 apparently not more than two species; one of very limited range, con- 

 fined to the coast district of southwestern Mexico, in the States of 

 Guerrero and Oaxaca, the other, modified into a considei*able number 

 of geographic subspecies, occupjang the rest of Mexico and those por- 

 tions of the United States embraced within the area outlined above. 



The specimens of Vai'dimiJis ca/'dhxi/is from all parts of the humid 

 eastern portion of the Lower Sonoran Province of the United States, 

 from New Jerse}' to Kansas, and southward to near the Gulf coast 



