Painted

1916

Published

1930

Volume

10

Plate

594a-594b

Texas Pyrrhuloxia

Pyrrhuloxia sinuata texana

Every change of mood — from indifference to alertness, from curiosity to ennui — can be detected from the quick motions of the conspicuous crest. Finley found a family he photographed, quite tame and confiding after the first excitement of contact had quieted.

BREEDING

This and following subspecies are similar to Arizona Pyrrhuloxia.

RANGE

Neuces, Bee, Bexar, Kendall and Tom Green counties, Texas.

San Lucas Pyrrhuloxia

Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae

BREEDING

RANGE

Cape region of Lower California.

Gum Elastic

Bumelia lanuginosa

A tree, up to 50 feet high, distributed from southern Georgia, Illinois and Missouri, south to Florida and Alabama and west to mountains of Nueva Leon in Texas.

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