646 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and under parts rather light pure ver- 

 milion red, decidedly lighter than average of C. c. cardmalis., the crest 

 rather deeper red than under parts, and, except in worn summer 

 plumage, more or less obscured by olive-grayish tips to feathers; 

 black capistrum as in C. c. cardinalis., but narrovsrer superiorly, not con- - 

 tinous across anterior part of forehead; otherwise not obviously dif- 

 ferent in coloration from C. c. cardinnlis; length (skins), 213.36-228.60 

 (221.49); wing, 99.57-104.39 (101.85); tail, 118.62-127.00 (122.43); 

 culmen, from base, 20.32-22.61 (22.10); depth of bill at base, 16.51- 

 17.78 (17.27); width of mandible at base, 13.21-13.97 (13.46); tarsus, 

 27.43-28.45 (28.19); middle toe, 17.78-19.05 (18.29).^ 



Adult femide. — Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep brownish 

 gray or grayish hair brown; coloration otherwise much like that of 

 the female of C. c. floridanus, but even more deeply and uniformly 

 tawny (clay color or deep clay -buff) beneath, the capistrum sometimes 

 quite distinct and deep grayish, the sides of head and chest often con- 

 spicuously touched with red; length (skins), 199.39-210.82 (204.98); 

 wing, 96.27-101.60 (it.S. 55); tail, 113.79-120.65 (117.09); culmen, from 

 base, 20.83; depth of bill at base, 15.75; width of mandible at base, 

 12.45-12.95 (12.70); tarsus, 25.40-25.91 (25.65); middle toe, 16.76- 

 17.53 (17.02).^ 



-Southern Arizona and contiguous parts of Sonora (Magdalena, Oputo, 

 etc.), northwestern Mexico. 



(?) CardmaKs virgiminms (not of Bonaparte) Baird, Kep. Pacific K. R. Surv., ix, 



1858, 509, part (Fort Thorn, New Mexico) . 

 Cardinalis igneus (not of Baird) Coues, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 84 (Camp 



Grant, Arizona). — Coopek, Orn. Cal., 1870, 238, part (Camp Grant).— 



Yarrow, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1871 (1874), 35 (Arizona).— 



Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1884, 341, part.— Bartlett, 



Mon. Ploc. and Fring., pt. iii, 1889, part (Camp Grant and Tucaon, Arizona). 

 ICardinalis virginianus.'] Var. igneus CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 151, part 



(Arizona). 

 l_Cardincdis virginianus'] var. igneus Ridqway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 617, part 



(Arizona). 

 Cardinalis virginianus . . . var. igneus Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 203a, part.— 



Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1872 (1874) , 159 (s. e. Arizona); 



Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 302 (Cienega, Arizona). 

 Cardinalis irirginianus, var. igneus Baird, Brewer, and Ridqway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 103, part (Arizona). 

 {Cardinalis virginianus'] c. igneus Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 172, part (La 



synonymy) . 

 Cardinalis virginianus igneus Bbbwsteb, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, Apr., 1881, 69 



(San Pedro R., Arizona); vii, 1882, 199 (Tucson, Arizona).— Ridqway, Norn. 



N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 242a, part. 

 Cardinalis virginiana ignea CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 300, part. 

 C.{ardinalis'] v.lirginianus] igneus Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 394, 



part. 



' Seven specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



