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U. S. P. R. R EXP AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 
PYRKIIULOXIA SINUATA, Bonap. 
Cardinatts sinuatus, Bp. Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond. V, 1837, 111. (Mexico.)— Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. V, 1851,116.— 
Cassin, Illust. I, vn, 1854, 204 ; pi. xxxiii. 
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata, Bon. Consp. 1850, 500. 
Sp. Ch.— Head with an elongated, pointed crest, springing from the crown. Upper parts generally pale ashy brown ; hood, 
sides of neck, and under parts of body, rather paler. Long crest feathers, bill all round including lores and encircling the 
eye, wing and tail dark crimson. Chin and upper part of throat, breast, and median line of the belly, under tail coverts, 
tibia, edge and inner coverts of the wings, bright carmine red. Bill yellowish. 
Female similar with the under part brownish yellow ; middle of belly and throat only tinged with red". 
Length about 8.50 ; wing, 3.75 ; tail, 4.50. 
Hub.— Valley of the Rio Grande of Texas. 
In this species the bill is very short and greatly curved, much higher than long. The upper 
outline almost forms the quadrant of a circle, the commissural outline abruptly bent at an 
angle of about sixty degrees in its middle. In this respect it differs greatly from Cardinalis 
virginianus, in which the bill is much longer, straighter, and with the angle of the commis- 
sural outline much further back. 
The wing is considerably rounded, the fourth and fifth quills longest; the first as long as the 
secondaries, the second longer than the seventh. The tail is long, graduated on the sides ; the 
outer about half an inch shorter than the middle. The feathers are very broad to the end and 
obliquely truncate. They are rather broader than in Cardinalis virginianus. The crest is 
narrower and longer, confined to the middle of the crown ; it extends back about 1.80 inches 
from the base of the bill. 
The carmine of the breast is somewhat hidden by grayish tips to the feathers ; that of the 
throat is streaked a little with darker. The exposed surfaces of the wing coverts and of second- 
aries and tertials are like the back. The tail feathers are tipped with brownish. 
List of specimens. 
Oatal . 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
209 
47 
59 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
4027 
4028 
4029 
0366 
6368 
6369 
6370 
8056 
s 
3 
Q 
Q 
New Leon, Mexico 
May — , 1853 
Mar. — , 1853 
8.00 
7.50 
11.50 
10.50 
10.50 
3.50 
3.50 
3.25 
Eye brown ; bill orange ; 
feet dove color. 
Eye brown; bill dull yel- 
low ; feet lead. 
Ringgold Barracks. Tex. 
July — , 1853 
"q" 
3 
Jan. — , 1855 
do 
26 
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CARD IN ALIS, B o n a parte. 
Cardinalis, Bonaparte, Saggio di una distribuzione metod. dei Animagli Vertebrati, 1831, (Agassiz). Type 
Loxia cardinalis, Linn . 
q h . Bill enormously large ; culmen very slightly curved, commissure sinuated ; lower jaw broader than the length of 
the gonys, considerably wider than the upper jaw, about as deep as the latter. Tarsi longer than middle toe ; outer toe 
rather the longer, reaching a little beyond the base of the middle one ; hind toe not so long. Wings moderate, reaching over 
the basal third of the exposed part of the tail. Four outer quills graduated ; the first equal to the secondaries. Tail long, 
decidedly longer than the wings, considerably graduated ; feathers broad, truncated a little obliquely at the end, the corners 
rounded. Colors red. Head crested. 
