What is "pyrrhuloxia"

n. (taxlink Cardinalis sinuatus species noshow=1), a North American bird with grey and red plumage

n. crested gray-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico [syn: Pyrrhuloxia sinuata]

The pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal (Cardinalis sinuatus) is a medium-sized North American song bird found in the American southwest and northern Mexico. This distinctive species with a short, stout bill, red crest and wings, closely resembles the northern and the vermilion cardinals which are in the same genus.