. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. f)(5 JJOUTII AMEKICAX BIUDa lu'initle siniiliir, witli tlip uiidi'i' piirt browiiisli-yollow ; iiiitlillo of ln-lly and throat only tiiificd witli ic(|. IIaii. Valli-y of tlic IJio (liaiido ol''IVxas and westward; Capo St. Lucas; Mazatlaii, Mexico. The wing is considerably rounded, tlie 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
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. f)(5 JJOUTII AMEKICAX BIUDa lu'initle siniiliir, witli tlip uiidi'i' piirt browiiisli-yollow ; iiiitlillo of ln-lly and throat only tiiificd witli ic(|. IIaii. Valli-y of tlic IJio (liaiido ol''IVxas and westward; Capo St. Lucas; Mazatlaii, Mexico. The wing is considerably rounded, tlie 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 ol)li([uely trun- cate. They are rather broader than '" Cardinulis virgiiimiius. The crest is narrower and longer, and confined to the middle of the crown; it extends back about inches from the base of the bill. The carmine of the breast is some- Piirrhvioxin simmta. yr\^^^ hiddcu by grayisli tips to the featliers ; that of tlie throat is streaked a little with darker. The exposed surfaces of the wing-coverts and of secondaries and tertials are like the back. The tail-feathers are tij)pod witli broM'nish. Specimens from Cape St. Lucas are very much smaller than any others, measuring only, wing, ; tail, (1. Tlie crest is dull carmine, instead of dark wine-])urple ; the red tinge on wing and tail much fainter, and the sides, as well as tlie gray tints everywhere, more brownish ; there is none of tliat dark burnt-carmine tint to the red of lores and cheeks observable in all the Texas specimens. No. 4l),758, Camp Grant, xVrizona, is like the Cape St. Lucas birds in colors, except that the crest is dusky, but the proportions are those of the liio Crande series. Habits. The Texan Cardinal was originally described as a bird of Mex- ico by Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. It lias since been ascertained to inhabit the southern central portions of our country, its range of exten
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