BIEDS OF KOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBIC A. 648 



Gulf slope (hot and temperate districts) of southeastern Mexico, 

 in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Cordova; Orizaba; Catemaco; Ota- 

 titlan; San Andres Tuxtla?; Jalapa; Antigua) and northeastern 

 Oaxaca (Tuxtepec; Play a Vicente); north to southern Tamaulipas 

 (Alta Mira). 



Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 

 302 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 378 (Playa 

 Vicente, Oaxaca). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 552 (Vera 

 Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 340, part (Cor- 

 dova and Jalapa; Playa Vicente). — Baktlbtt, Mon. Ploc. and Fring. , pt. ii, 

 1888, 1, part. 



ICardinalis] virginianus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. 



Cardinalis virginianus va.r.coccineus'RiTiGW ay, Am. Journ. Sci.,v, Jan., 1873,39, 

 part (type from Mexico'); Am. Nat.,vii, Oct., 1873, 617, part (Mirador); 

 in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 99, part. 



[Cardinalis virginianus'] var. coccineus Bidqway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 617, 

 part (Mirador). 



Cardinalis coccineus Baied, Beewee, and RincnvAY, Hiat. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 pi. 30, fig. 8 (bill).— Salvin, Ibis, 1888, 260, part. 



[Cardinalis virginianus] b. coccineus CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, part. 



Cardinalis ruber coccineus Stejnbger, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 172. 



C.[ardinalis] cardinalis coccineus Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442. 



Cardinalis cardinalis coccineus Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 28 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz). 



[Cardinalis cardinalis.] Subsp. a Cardinalis coccineus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus.jxii, 1888, 163, part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS LITTORALIS Nelson. 

 TABASCO CARDINAL. 



Similar to O. c. coccineus but adult male much deeper, less scarlet, 

 red, the head, neck, and under parts much nearer carmine than ver- 

 milion, the back, etc., more purplish dusky red; adult female similar 

 in color to that of C. c. coccineus. 



Achdt ma^e.— Length (skins), 190.50-210.82 (201.17); wing, 82.55- 

 91.44 (87.63); tail, 94.74-105.92 (100.84); culmen, from base, 20.07- 

 20.83 (20.32); depth of bill at base, 16.51-17.53 (17.02); width of 

 mandible at base, 12.45-13.72 (12.95); tarsus, 25.16-26.16 (25.91); 

 middle toe, 16.00-18.54(17.53).' 



/ ' This specimen is undoubtedly either from the State of Vera Cruz or the contigu- 

 ous portion of the State of Oaxaca, since it agrees exactly with examples from that 

 district in the collection of tlie Biological Survey (Department of Agriculture). 

 It was received by the Smithsonian Institution, In 1863, from M. Salle, and on 

 the original label bears the following, apparently in Jlr. A. Boucard's handwriting, 

 " Cardinalis virginianus Lin. cameus Less. E. Z., p. 210, Mexique," and on the reverse 

 side, "No. 100." Boucard made collections for M.Salle at Playa Vicente, Oaxaca, 

 in 1858, and "Cardinalis virginianus" is named in Dr. Sclater' s list of Boucard's col- 

 lection (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 378). Possibly, therefore, this specimen, 

 which I have selected as the type of C. c. coccineus, is from Boucard's Playa Vicente 

 collection. 

 ' Four specimens. 



