Pyrrhuloxia
(syn. Cardinalis Ϯ Pyrrhuloxia C. sinuatus) Portmanteau of genera Pyrrhula Brisson 1760, bullfinch, and Loxia Linnaeus, 1758, crossbill. “1028. Cardinalis, Bp. 1831. a. Pyrrhuloxia. Rostrum compressum, turgidum, sinuatum! Rubro colore tantum indutus! Medius quasi inter Paradoxornitheos et Loxiinas. 1. C. sinuatus, Bp. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837. p. 111. ex Mexico occ. Zacatecas. Rubro cinereoque varius; gula et capistro coccineis: cauda vix rotundata: rostro fusco.” (Bonaparte 1850); "Pyrrhuloxia Bonaparte, 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 500. Type, by monotypy, Cardinalis sinuatus Bonaparte." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 220). From its bill and colours the Pyrrhuloxia or Grey Cardinal was considered intermediate between the crossbills and the parrotbills. Var. Pyrrholoxia.