362 . FRINGILLIDA. 
C. versicolor had for a long time to be included in the birds of North America was 
its occurrence in the peninsula of Lower California, where it breeds, Mr. Xantus having 
found a nest and three eggs on May 5th at Cape San Lucas. It is now known to cross 
the Rio Grande, Mr. Sennett and Dr. Merrill having both met with it on the Texan 
side of the river. It has also occurred in Michigan, but this is far outside its ordinary 
range. 
In Mexico C@. versicolor is widely distributed, and is common, according to Grayson, 
at Mazatlan, where it is a constant resident, as well as at Tepic in the State of Jalisco. 
The same traveller says that it has a sweet song, which it utters morning and evening 
from the top of a bush !!. Sumichrast includes it amongst the resident birds of Vera 
Cruz; but he says it is quite rare, though found in the neighbourhood of Orizaba °. 
In Guatemala it is still more scarce. We never met with it ourselves; but the late 
Mr. Skinner sent a specimen to Gould, and another has reached the Smithsonian 
Institution from Dr. Van Patten. 
2. Cyanospiza rositz. (Tab. XXV.) 
Cyanospiza rosite, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 397*; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20°; Salv. 
Ibis, 1874, p. 809 *. 
Lete coerulea ; dorso certa luce viridescente vix induto, alis et cauda nigricantibus dorsi colore limbatis; loris 
nigris, ciliis albis ; abdomine toto lete rosaceo plerumque ceruleo intermixto, crisso pure rosaceo; rostro 
corneo, mandibula subtus pallida, pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 5:3, ale 2°8, caude 2:1, tarsi 0°65. 
supra fusca, dorso postico et cauda cerulescentibus ; subtus brunnea, ventre pallidiore et rosaceo lavato. 
(Descr. maris et feminz ex Cacoprieto, Tehuantepec, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Cacoprieto, isthmus of Tehuantepec (Swmichrast | 2%). 
This is another very beautiful species, whose range, so far as we know, is limited to 
agsmall district on the isthmus of Tehuantepec, where alone the late Prof. Sumichrast 
met with it,and from whom we have received specimens of both sexes and young males 
in change of plumage. 
The combination of blue and rosy pink in the plumage of this species suggests that 
it may occupy an intermediate position between C. cyanea and C. ciris, but there is 
nothing else in common with them to support such a view, and C. rosite is, in reality, a 
very isolated form, in fact quite as distinct as any of the other species of Cyanospiza, a 
genus remarkable for the definite character of all its species, which, again, are free 
from any perceptible variation in themselves. If the specific characters of all birds 
were drawn with the precision of the members of Cyanospiza, ornithologists would 
have an easy task in defining them! 
8, Cyanospiza leclancheri. 
Passerina leclancheri, Lafr. Mag. Zool. 1841, Ois. t. 22°. : 
Spiza leclancheri, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 475”. 
Cyanospiza leclancheri, Dugés, La Nat.i. p. 140°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 5514; Lawr. Mem. 
