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The greater part of Texas (west to Tom Green and Concho counties) 

 western parts of Indian Territory (?), and northeastern Mexico, ii 

 States of Tamaulipas (Victoria, Jaumave), Nuevo Leon (Monterey 

 Rodriguez, Bagdad, Linares, etc.), San Luis Potosi (Matehuala, Valles 

 Hacienda Angostura), Hidalgo (Tula), Guanajuato (?),^ and Puebli 

 (Metlaltoyuca). 



CardinaUs virgbilauus (not of Bonaparte) Woodhouse, in Sitgreavea' Expl. Zufl 

 and Col. E., 1853, 81 (Texas; Indian Territory).— Baird, Rep. Pacific E. R 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 509, part (Brownsville, Indianola, and Eio Seco, Texas 

 Neuevo Leon, Mexico); Eep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859 

 17 (Brownsville; Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila, Mexico); Cat. N, 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 390, part.— Dkessee, Ibis, 1865, 491 (Texas).— (?)Duges 

 La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 139 (Guanajuato, Mexico).— Coues, Check List, I87a 

 no. 203, part. — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 100, part. — Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 21 

 (Brownsville and Hidalgo, Texas; descr. nest and eggs); v, 1879, 394 

 (Lometa, Texas) .—Merrill, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 129 (FortBrown, 

 Texas). — Eidgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 242, part. — Ogilby, Sci. 

 Proc. Eoy. Dubl. Soc, iii, 1882 (40) (Navarro Co., Texas). — Nehrling, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 13 (s. e. Texas).— Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vii, 1882, 39 (Kendall Co., Texas) . — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1884, 340, part (Texas; Nuevo Leon; Guanajuato?). — Babtlett, 

 Mon. Ploc. and Fring, pt. ii, 1888, 1, part. 



[Cardinalis'] rirginianus CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, part. —Sclatek and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. 



C.[ardinalis] virgbiimins CouBs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 393, part. 



[Cardinalis rlrgianiix'] var. virginianus Eidgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct. 1873, 617, 

 part. — Baird, Brewer and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 99, part. 



[Cardinalis rirginianus] a. rirginianus CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, part, in 

 synonymy. 



Cardinalis rirginiana CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 299, part. 



Cardinalis cardinalis (not Loxia cardinalis Linnaeus) American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 593, part. — Hancock, Bull. Eidgw. Orn. Club, 

 no. 2, 1887, 20 (Corpus Christi, Texas).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 293 (Tom 

 Green and Concho counties, w. Texas, reaid.). — Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., X, 1887, 680 (Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Beeville, Texas).— 

 Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 215, part (San Angelo, Texas; Caddo, 

 Indian Territory?).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 161, part (Ken- 

 dall Co., Texas).- Hasbrouck, Auk, vi, 1889, 240 (Eastland Co., Texas).— 



Texas, the red being appreciably more intense; but while they thus approach C. c. 

 coccineus they may at once be distinguished from that form by their decidedly 

 smaller and less turgid bill, very much duller red crest, and, except in worn post- 

 nuptial dress, very distinct grayish margins to the feathers of the back. Females 

 from localities in the same States and also one from Hidalgo (Tula, March 9, no. 

 144311, TJ. S. Nat. Mus., E. W. Nelson, collector) are quite indistmguishable from 

 Texan females; in fact, they can be very closely matched by several specimens from 

 southern Illinois and Indiana. 



' The specimens examined from Guanajuato were evidently cage birds, since they 

 all show the peculiar light buff-yellow markings on head, neck, and chest said to be 

 produced artificially by the Indian bird fanciers of that district. The specimens 

 were all males, no females having been examined. These artificially yellow-markeu 

 birds represent the C. flavonotatus of Euss (see synonymy, page 641). 



