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Adndt female. — Length (skin), 215.90; wing, 87.63; tail, 100.33- 

 culmen, from base, 21.34; depth of bill at base, 18.29; width of man-' 

 dible at base, 13.21; tarsus, 25.91; middle toe, IT.27.^ 



"The moist, hot, coast lowlands of Vera Cruz, near Coatzocoalcos 

 and Minatitlan, and undoubtedly ranging into the adjacent parts of 

 Tabasco." (Nelson.) 



Cardinalis cardinalis littoralu Nelson, Auk, xiv, Jan., 1897, 64 (Coatzocoalcos 

 coast s. Vera Cruz; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS YUCATANICUS Ridgway. 

 YUCATAN CARDINAL. 



Similar to C c. coccineus but decidedly smaller; adult male with 

 the red of a slightly lighter hue; adult female not obviously different 

 in coloration from that of C. c. coccineus, but at once distinguishable 

 by the smaller size, the bill especially. 



Adult 7nale.~hength (skins), 171.45-199.39 (186.94); wing, 80.77- 

 86.36 (83.82); tail, 83.82-101.60 (93.98); culmen, from base, 18.03- 

 20.83 (19.81); depth of bill at base, 15.49-16.26 (15.75); width of 

 mandible at base, 11.43-12.95 (12.45); tarsus, 23.37-25.40 (24.64); 

 middle toe, 15.49-17.53 (16.51).' 



Adidt female.— Length (skins), 165.10-195.58 (179.83); wing, 77.47- 

 86.11 (81.53); tail, 85.85-97.03 (92.20); culmen, from base, 17.78-20.07 

 (18.64); depth of bill at base, 14.99-16.75 (15.32); width of mandible at 

 base, 11.68-12.96 (12.19); tarsus, 23.11-25.16 (24.13); middle toe, 

 16.24-17.53 (16.00).' 



Peninsula of Yucatan; British Honduras (?). 



(f ) Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 193 (Belize, British 



Honduras) . 

 Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 201 



(Merida, Yucatan). — Bouoard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 444 (Chable, 



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



(Merida and Chable, Yucatan; Belize and Corosal, British Honduras?.)— 



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

 Cardinalis virginianus var. coccineus Ridgway, Am. Jour. Sci., v, Jan., 1873, 39, part 



(Yucatan; British Honduras?); Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 617, part (Yuca- . 



tan); in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway'a Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 99 part 



(do.). 

 [Cardinalis virginianus'] h. coccineus CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, part (in 



synonymy) . 

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



Mus., xii, 1888, 163, part (Chable and Merida, n. Yucatan; Corosal and Belize, 



British Honduras?). 

 Cardinalis coccineus Salvin, Ibis, Apr., 1888, 260, part (Yucatan). 

 C.[ardinalis'] cardinalis yucatanicus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 443 



(Merida, u. Yucatan; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



' One specimen. ^ Eighteen specimens. ' Nine specimens. 



