648 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Cardinalis iiirginiana ignea Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no, 300, part. 



C.lardinalis] v.[irginiamis] igneus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884 394 

 part. 



Cardinalis ruber igneus Stejnegee, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 172 part. 



Cardinalis cardinalis igneus Stejnegee, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 171, in text. — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 5936. 



C. lardinaHsl cardinalis igneus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442. 



[Cardinalis cardinalis.} Subsp. /3. Cardinalis igneus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. xii, 1888, 164, part (San Jos6 and Cape St. Lucas, Lower California). 



Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 100, part 

 (Cape St. Lucas). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS AFFINIS Nelson. 

 ALAMOS CARDIITAL. 



Similar to C. c. igneus but averaging slightly larger, bill decidedly 

 narrower or less tumid,^ and females decidedly grayer above and duller 

 tawny -buff beneath, with more dull red on wings and tail (especially on 

 the latter). 



Adaili male.— Ijength (skins), 200.66-218.M (211.58); wing, 91.44- 

 99.06 (94.49); tail, 106.68-113.03 (109.73); culmen, from base, 19.81- 

 21.59 (20.57); depth of bill at base, 15.49-17.27 (16.51); widthof man- 

 dible at base, 12.70-13.46 (12.95); tarsus, 25.40-26.67(25.91); middle 

 toe, 15.75-17.78 (17.53).' 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 200.66-213.36 (206.25); wing, 90.17- 

 93.47 (91.44); tail, 101.60-113.03 (106.17); culmen, from base, 19.81- 

 20.32 (20.07); depth of bill at base, 15.24-15.75 (15.49); width of man- 

 dible at base, 12.19-12.70 (12.45); tarsus, 24.89-25.91 (25.40); middle 

 toe, 17.02-17.78 (17.27).' 



Coast district of southern Sonora (Alamos, Ortiz, Batamotal, Guay- 

 mas, etc.) and northern Sinaloa, east into southwestern Chihuahua 

 (Batopilas, etc.). 



Cardinalis virginianus igneus (not Cardinalis igneus Baird) Belding, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 343 (Guaymas, Sonora). 

 Cardinalis cardinalis superhus (not of Ridgway) American Ornthologists' Union, 



Check List, 1886, no. 593o, part. 

 C. [ardinaHsl cardinalis superbus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 442, part. 

 Cardinalis cardinalis affinis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii. May 29, 1899. 



28 (Alamos, Sonora; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



CARDINALIS CARDINALIS SINALOENSIS Nelson. 

 MAZATLAN CARDINAL. 



Similar to C. c. ignem but smaller, with bill longer and relatively 

 narrower; adult male with the red purer and slightly more intense; 



^The difference in the shape of the bill is but faintly suggested by measurements, 

 which, of course, indicate distances in straight lines; it is quite obvious on compan- 

 son of specimens. 



^ Eight specimens. 



'Three specimens (wing of four measured). 



