Commissure without an appreciable tooth; bill pale brownish.
9. P. æstiva. ♂. Above purplish-red, beneath pure, fine, rosaceous-vermilion. ♀. Above brownish olive-green, beneath ochraceous-yellow.
Head above scarcely brighter reddish or yellowish than the back. Bill, .55, or less, from nostril; primaries, .84 longer than secondaries. Wing, 3.81; tail, 2.96; bill, .52. Hab. Eastern Province of United States, south, in winter, through Eastern Middle America to Peru … var. æstiva.
Head above decidedly brighter reddish or yellowish than the back. Bill, .60 or more, from nostril; primaries, 1.16 longer than secondaries. Wing, 4.24; tail, 3.68; bill, .64. Hab. Southern Middle Province of United States (Upper Rio Grande region and Lower Colorado Basin); in winter south, through Western Mexico, to Colima … var. cooperi.
C. Body ashy; wings, tail, and pileum dull purplish-red; throat, lining of wing and crissum dilute rose-pink in the ♀.
10. P. roseigularis.[106] Sides of head, nape, back, and scapulars deep ash, the dorsal region with a faint purplish cast; lores, eyelids, cheeks, and lower parts in general, paler, and with a dingy buff tinge,—paler on the abdomen, and more strongly marked with ash across the breast
and along sides. Whole pileum, from bill to nape and down to the upper edge of lores, eyes, and auriculars, wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail, dark purplish-red. Whole throat dilute vermilion, or rose-pink sharply defined; crissum and lining of wings a paler shade of the same. Wing, 3.05; tail, 2.75; bill, from nostril, .45; its depth at the base, .40, its breadth, .30; tarsus, .80. Hab. Yucatan.
Pyranga rubra, Vieill.
THE SCARLET TANAGER.
Tanagra rubra, Linn. I, 1766, 314.—Gmelin, I, 1788, 889.—Wilson, Am. Orn. II, 1810, 42; pl. xi, f. 3, 4.—Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 388; pl. cccliv. Pyranga rubra, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, iv; pl. i, f. 12 (Head.).—Swainson, F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 273.—Bon. List. 1838.—Ib. Conspectus, 1850.—Aud. Syn. 1839, 136.—Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 226; pl. ccix.—Sclater, Pr. Zoöl. Soc. 1855, 156.—Ib. 1856, 123.—Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 270.—Samuels, 251. Phœnisoma rubra, Sw. Birds, II, 1837, 284. Phœnicosoma rubra, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851, 24. Pyranga erythromelas, Vieillot, “Encyc. Méth. 800.”—Ib. Nouv. Dict. XXVIII, 1817, 293.