Nor is there, in a more elaborate paper, in which this bird is described by the Baron de la Fresnaye, in Guerin’s Magazine of Zoology (as cited below), a much more explicit or satisfactory history. Its habits, it is stated, resemble those of the Tits (Genus _Parus_), and it has a feeble cry like the syllables _pe-pe-pe_. Mons. de la Fresnaye’s specimens were from Jalapa, and were killed in August. This bird belongs to a group of Flycatchers of small size, of which various species inhabit the warmer parts of America, and are represented in the North only by the Redstart (_Setophagha ruticilla_), a common and well known bird of the United States. Nearly all the species are remarkable for the gay and showy colors of their plumage; but the bird now before us is certainly entitled to precedence on such foundation for pretensions. It is not equalled by any other species of its group, and is in fact one of the most beautiful of the smaller birds of North America. Our figures, which represent adult males, are about two-thirds of the size of life, and were drawn from specimens obtained in Mexico, now in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy. DESCRIPTION AND TECHNICAL OBSERVATIONS. Genus Cardellina. Bonaparte, Cons. Av. p. 312. General form rather lengthened and slender; bill moderate, with several pairs of slender bristles at the base of the upper mandible; wings rather long, with the third quill longest; tail long; tarsi and toes moderate, rather slender, the latter rather short; colors bright and showy. Two American birds only are classed in this genus. Cardellina rubra. (Swainson.) Setophaga rubra. Swainson, Philos. Mag. I., new series, p. 367. (1827.) Sylvia miniata. La Fresnaye, Guerin’s Mag. de Zool., 1836 (not paged). Parus leucotis. Giraud, Sixteen new species N. A. Birds, 1841 (not paged). “Sylvia argyrotis. Illiger.” Bonap. Cons. Av. p. 312. Form. Bill somewhat subulate, sharp; wing with the third quill longest; tail long, emarginate; tarsi slender; toes rather short; claws fully curved, compressed, acute. Dimensions. Total length of skin, male, 5 inches; wing, 2½; tail, 2¾ inches. Colors. Male.—A well-defined large space behind the eye, fine silky white; quills and tail-feathers light hair-brown, with a tinge of cinereous and margined externally with dark red; entire other plumage above and below bright vermilion, lighter on the under-parts, and tinged with purple on the back; inferior coverts of the wings and axillary feathers pale reddish white; bill and tarsi light colored (yellow?). Hab. Texas and Mexico. Spec. in Mus. Acad., Philada.