. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. M NuiiTii A.\ii:iacA.; Pyrrhuhxin siniiata. Female similar, with the uiulor part browiiijih-ycllow ; niiildle of belly and throat only tiniretl with re<l. Mail Valley of the Kio Grande of Texas an'l westward; Cape St. Lucas; Maxatlaii, Mexico. The wing is considerably roiimleil, the fourth and fifth quills longest; the first as long as the secondaries, the second longer than the .seventh. The tail is lon
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds -- North America; Ornithology -- North American; Oiseaux -- Amérique du Nord; Ornithologie -- Amérique du Nord. M NuiiTii A.\ii:iacA.; Pyrrhuhxin siniiata. Female similar, with the uiulor part browiiijih-ycllow ; niiildle of belly and throat only tiniretl with re<l. Mail Valley of the Kio Grande of Texas an'l westward; Cape St. Lucas; Maxatlaii, Mexico. The wing is considerably roiimleil, 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 feathei*s are very broad to the end and oblitjuely trun- cate. They are rather broader than in Cardinal is rinjiaianus. The crest is narrower and longer, and confined to the niiiUlle of the crown; it extends back about inches from the base of the bill. The carmine of the breast is some- what hidden by grayish tips to the leathers ; that of the throat is streaked a little witli darker. The exposed surfaces of the wing-coverts and of secondaries and tertials are like the back. The tail-featliers are tipped with brownish. Specimens from Cape St. Lucas are very much smaller than any others, measuring only, wing, ; tail, The crest is dull carmine, instead of dark wine-i)ur])le ; the red tinge on wing and tail much fainter, and the sides, as well as the gray tints everywhere, more brownish; there is none of that dark burnt-carmine tint to the red of lores and cheeks observable in all the Texas specimens. Xo. 4r!),758, Camp Grant, Arizona, is like the Cape St. Lucas birds in colors, except that the crest is dusky, but the proportions are those of the Kio Grande 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 has since been ascertained to inhabit the southern
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