642 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSJSUM. 



Peninsula of Florida. 



i'di-diiudk rinj'm'Knam [not of Bonaparte) BAntD, Kep. Paciflc E. E. Surv. ix 



1858, 509, part (Amelia I. and Key Bisoayne, Florida) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds 



1859, no. 390, part. — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 280 (e. Florida- 

 crit.). — CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 203, part. — Baibd, Brewer, and Ridg- 

 \VAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 100, part. — Mekeiam, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 

 87 (St. Johns and Ocklawaha rivers, Florida). — Maynakd, Birds Florida, pt. 

 iv, 1878, 108.— Eidgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 203, part.— (?) Coey, 

 EevisedList Birds W. I., 1886, 35 (Cuba; fide Gundlach, Eepert. Fisico-Nat. 

 Cuba, 1866, 397) ; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 123.— Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 324 

 (Gulf coast Florida). — Baetlett, Mon. Ploc. and Fring., pt. ii, 1888, 1, part. 



[Gardinalis] virginianus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, part. 

 C.[ardinalis'] virginianiis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 393, part. 

 Cardinalis virginiana Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 299, part. 

 ICardinalinvirginianus'] var. rirghiianus Eidgway, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 617, part.— 



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

 Oinlinalis cardinalis (not Loxia cardinalis Linnaeus) American Ornithologists' 



Union, Check List, 1886, no. 593, part.— Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 324 (Key 



West and Gulf coast, Florida) . 

 C. [ardinalisl cardinalis Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442, part. 

 Cardinalis cardinalis floridanus Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 606, 



614 (Enterprise, Florida; U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American Ornithologists' 



Union Committee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 122 (no. 593d). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS COCCINEUS Ridgway. 

 JALAPA CARDINAL. 



Similar to C. c. airdinalis but .smaller, with stouter bill and much more 

 intense coloration; adult male with back, etc., deep, dusky red, almost 

 or entireh' -svithout grayish or brownish margins to the feathers; head, 

 net'k, and under parts intense pure vermilion, the crest but slightly if 

 any duller than under parts; adult female with capistrum dull black 

 or gi-ayish black, very conspicuous; back, etc., buffy wood brown, 

 under parts deep tawny-buff, deeper (almost tawny) on chest. 



Adult ?rt«/d.— Length (skins), 193. 04-218. 44 (202.44); wing, 86.11- 

 91.44 (88.90); tail, 98.55-105.92 (101.85); culmen, from base, 20.07- 

 21.84 (20.83); depth of bill at base, 16.00-17.78 (17.02); widthof man- 

 dible at base, 12.45-13.97 (13.09); tarsus, 25.16-27.43 (26.16); middle 

 toe, 15.75-18.29 (17.27).^ 



AdMlt female.— Ijmgth. (skins), 195.58-208.28 (201.93); wing, 82.55- 

 86.36 (84.07); tail, 88.90-102.87 (98.30); culmen, from base, 19.05-20.32 

 (20.07); depth of bill at base (thi-ee specimens), 16.51; width of man- 

 dible at base (one specimen), 12.70; tarsus, 22.86-26.67 (25.15); middle 

 toe, 17.27-17.78.' 



eventually become necessary to separate the Louisiana bird as a different subspecies. 

 Many additional specimens will be necessary, however, and" especially a good series 

 of females, to determine its status. 



' Ten specimens. 



'' Three specimens. 



