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AduJf fe/nalf'.—ljength (skins), 185.42-199.39 (193.04); wing, 88.39- 

 91.44 (89.66); tail, 92.71; oulmen, from base, 20.07-22.10 (21.08); 

 depth of bill at base, 14.99-16.26 (15.75); width of mandible at base, 

 12.19-12.95 (12.45); tarsus, 25.91-28.19 (26.92); middle toe, 17.27-18.29 

 (17.78).^ 



Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico. 



Cardinalis virginianus (not of Bonaparte) Gkayson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 



1871, 281 (Tres Marias Islands, w. Mexico). 

 [Cardinalis virginianvsl var. igneus (not Cardinalis igneus Baird) Ridgway, Am. 



Nat., vii, 1873, 617, part (Tres Marias). 

 CardhuiHx virginianus . . var. igneus Laweence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii 



1874, 275 (Tres Marias). 

 Cardinalis virginianus, var. igneus Baird, Bkewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 10,3, part (Tres Marias). 

 [Ciirdlnalis virginianus'] c. igneus Coves, BirdsN.W., 1874, 172, part (insynonymy). 

 Oirdinalis igneus (not of Baird) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Aves, i, 



1884, 341, part (Tres Marias). 

 [Cardinalis cardinalis.] Subsp. /3. Cardinalis igneus Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xii, 1888, 164, part (Tres Marias). 

 Cardinalis cardinalis marix Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, Jan. 27, 1898, 10 



(Maria Madre I., Tres Marias group, w. Mexico; U. S. Nat. Mus.); North 



Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 52 (habits). 



CARDINALIS CARNEUS Lesson. 

 COLIKA CARDINAl. 



Resembling f. cardinalis coccineus bat crest longer, with its feathers 

 stifl' and distinctly outlined (not blended) ; the bill more depressed, with 

 more convex outlines; adult male with upper parts decidedly lighter 

 in color than in any of the forms of C. cardinalis., especially the back 

 and rump, the latter, with the upper tail-coverts, decidedly lighter 

 reddish than the former; adult female similar in coloration to that of 

 C. cardinalis coccineus, but outer surface of wings similar in color to 

 the back, with only a little dull reddish toward shafts of some of the 

 feathers, nearly or quite concealed in the closed wing. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 180.34^193.04 (184.91); wing, 81.28- 

 85.85(83.82); tail, 89.41-93.98 (91.95); culmen, from base, 17.27-20.07 

 (18.80); depth of bill at base, 14.99-16.24 (16.11); width of mandible 

 at base, 11.43-12.45 (11.94); tarsus, 22.36-24.89 (23.88); middle toe, 

 15.24-16.00 (15.75).' 



Adult fe)m.d,'.~L,ength (skins), 180.34-184.15 (182.12); wing, 80.77- 

 83.82(82.30); tail, 81.53; culmen, from base, 18.03-18.80(18.29); depth 

 of bill at base, 14.73-14.99 (14.86); width of mandible at base, 10.92- 

 11.43 (11.18); tarsus, 22.10-22.61 (22.35); middle toe, 15.49-15.75 

 (15.62).' 



' Five specimens. ^ Six specimens. ' Two specimens. 



