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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3

Name: A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3
Author: Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Birds -- North America

There seems to be abundant reason for separating this genus from
_Guiraca_; the latter is, in reality, much more nearly related to
_Cyanospiza_, it being impossible to define the dividing line between
them.


Species and Varieties.

COMMON CHARACTERS. ♂. Head and upper parts (except rump)
deep black. Two broad bands across coverts, a large patch
on base of primaries, and terminal half of inner webs of
tail-feathers, pure white. Breast carmine or cinnamon;
axillars and lining of wing carmine or gamboge. ♀. Black
replaced by ochraceous-brown; other parts more streaked.

  H. ludovicianus. Rump and lower parts white; lining of
  wing, and patch on breast, rosy carmine. No nuchal collar.
  _Female._ Lining of wing saffron-yellow; breast with
  numerous streaks. _Hab._ Eastern Province of North
  America, south, in winter, to Ecuador.

  H. melanocephalus. Rump and lower parts cinnamon-rufous;
  lining of wing and middle of abdomen gamboge-yellow. A
  nuchal collar of rufous. _Female._ Lining of wing
  lemon-yellow; breast without streaks; abdomen tinged with
  lemon-yellow.

    Crown continuous black. No post-ocular rufous stripe.
    _Hab._ Mountains of Mexico, and Central Rocky Mountains
    of United States                           var. _melanocephalus_.

    Crown divided by a longitudinal rufous stripe; a
    distinct post-ocular stripe of the same. _Hab._ Western
    Province of United States, south, in winter, to Colima
                                                    var. _capitalis_.


Hedymeles ludovicianus, SWAINSON.

ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK.

  _Loxia ludoviciana_, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 306.—WILSON, Am.
       Orn. II, 1810, 135, pl. xvii, f. 2. _Guiraca ludoviciana_,
       SWAINSON, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 438.—BONAP. List, 1838.—IB.
       Consp. 1850, 501.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 497.—SAMUELS,
       328. _Fringilla ludoviciana_, AUD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 166; V,
       513, pl. cxxvii. _Pyrrhula ludoviciana_, SAB. Zoöl. App.
       Franklin’s Narr. _Coccothraustes ludoviciana_, RICH. List, Pr.
       Br. Ass. 1837. _Coccoborus ludovicianus_, AUD. Syn. 1839,
       133.—IB. Birds Am. III, 1841, 209, pl. 205.—MAX. Cab. J. VI,
       1858, 267. “_Goniaphea ludoviciana_, BOWDICH.” _Hedymeles
       ludoviciana_, CABANIS, Mus. Hein. 1851, 153. _Fringilla
       punicea_, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 921 (male). _Loxia
       obscura_, GMELIN, I, 1788, 862. _Loxia rosea_, WILSON, Am. Orn.
       pl. xvii, f. 2. _Coccothraustes rubricollis_, VIEILLOT, Galerie
       des Ois. I, 1824, 67, pl. lviii.

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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3Baird, Spencer Fullerton

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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3

Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Birds -- North America

There seems to be abundant reason for separating this genus from
_Guiraca_; the latter is, in reality, much more nearly related to
_Cyanospiza_, it being impossible to define the dividing line between
them.


Species and Varieties.

COMMON CHARACTERS. ♂. Head and upper parts (except rump)
deep black. Two broad bands across coverts, a large patch
on base of primaries, and terminal half of inner webs of
tail-feathers, pure white. Breast carmine or cinnamon;
axillars and lining of wing carmine or gamboge. ♀. Black
replaced by ochraceous-brown; other parts more streaked.

  H. ludovicianus. Rump and lower parts white; lining of
  wing, and patch on breast, rosy carmine. No nuchal collar.
  _Female._ Lining of wing saffron-yellow; breast with
  numerous streaks. _Hab._ Eastern Province of North
  America, south, in winter, to Ecuador.

  H. melanocephalus. Rump and lower parts cinnamon-rufous;
  lining of wing and middle of abdomen gamboge-yellow. A
  nuchal collar of rufous. _Female._ Lining of wing
  lemon-yellow; breast without streaks; abdomen tinged with
  lemon-yellow.

    Crown continuous black. No post-ocular rufous stripe.
    _Hab._ Mountains of Mexico, and Central Rocky Mountains
    of United States                           var. _melanocephalus_.

    Crown divided by a longitudinal rufous stripe; a
    distinct post-ocular stripe of the same. _Hab._ Western
    Province of United States, south, in winter, to Colima
                                                    var. _capitalis_.


Hedymeles ludovicianus, SWAINSON.

ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK.

  _Loxia ludoviciana_, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 306.—WILSON, Am.
       Orn. II, 1810, 135, pl. xvii, f. 2. _Guiraca ludoviciana_,
       SWAINSON, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 438.—BONAP. List, 1838.—IB.
       Consp. 1850, 501.—BAIRD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 497.—SAMUELS,
       328. _Fringilla ludoviciana_, AUD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 166; V,
       513, pl. cxxvii. _Pyrrhula ludoviciana_, SAB. Zoöl. App.
       Franklin’s Narr. _Coccothraustes ludoviciana_, RICH. List, Pr.
       Br. Ass. 1837. _Coccoborus ludovicianus_, AUD. Syn. 1839,
       133.—IB. Birds Am. III, 1841, 209, pl. 205.—MAX. Cab. J. VI,
       1858, 267. “_Goniaphea ludoviciana_, BOWDICH.” _Hedymeles
       ludoviciana_, CABANIS, Mus. Hein. 1851, 153. _Fringilla
       punicea_, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 921 (male). _Loxia
       obscura_, GMELIN, I, 1788, 862. _Loxia rosea_, WILSON, Am. Orn.
       pl. xvii, f. 2. _Coccothraustes rubricollis_, VIEILLOT, Galerie
       des Ois. I, 1824, 67, pl. lviii.

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