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Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 277°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, 
p. 4217. . 
Supra lete cxrulea, dorso medio paullo obscuriore, capite summo flavo-viridi, alis caudaque fusco nigrican- 
_ tibus dorsi colore limbatis ; oculorum ambitu, loris et corpore toto subtus flavissimis, pectore rubro-aurantio ; 
rostro corneo; pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 4°8, ale 2°8, caude 2-2, tarsi 0-65. (Descr. maris ex Tehu- 
antepec, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) . 
Q mari similis, sed coloribus omnibus minus nitidis. 
Hab. Mexico, Acapulco (Leclancher!, A. H. Markham‘), San Juan del-Rio (Rébouch *), 
Sierra Madre, Rio de la Ameria (Xantus*), Tapana®, Tehuantepec city °, Caco- 
prieto (Sumichrast). 
This beautiful species was discovered by M. Leclancher, one of the officers of the 
French vessel ‘ Venus,’ near Acapulco in Mexico during the expedition of that ship 1. 
It was near the same spot that Captain A. H. Markham obtained an example in the 
month of March 1880, more than forty years afterwards’. C. leclancheri, as the late 
Baron Lafresnaye called this bird, is restricted in its range to Western Mexico, and 
only passes a short way inland, San Juan del Rio being the furthest point from the 
coast whence we have seen it*. The southern limit of its range is the neighbourhood 
of Tehuantepec, where Sumichrast found it and sent us specimens °, 
The female is said to be like the male, the colours being less vivid. The species 
would thus differ from all its congeners, where the difference between the sexes is 
most marked. 
4, Cyanospiza ameena. 
Emberiza amena, Say in Long’s Exp. ii. p. 47°. 
Cyanospiza amena, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 84°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 
p- 276°. 
Passerina amena, Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed 2, p. 391%. 
Capite, cervice undique, tectricibus alarum minoribus et uropygio late ceruleis, dorso nigricante-ceruleo ; alis 
et cauda nigris, dorsi colore limbatis, illis fascia alba notatis, pectore lete castaneo ; corpore subtus reliquo 
albo; rostri maxilla cornea, mandibala pallida, pedibus obscure corylinis. Long. tota 4:7, ale 2-9 
caude 2:2, tarsi 0°65. (Descr. maris Salt Lake City, Smiths. Inst. no. 58596. Mus. nostr.) 
@ supra fusco-brunnea, plumis medialiter vix obscurioribus ; subtus sordide albicans, ventre imo paullo palli- 
diore. (Descr. exempl. ex California, Smiths. Inst. no. 79652. Mus. nostr.) 
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Hab. Nortu America, high central plains to the Pacific Ocean ?4.—Mexico, Mazatlan 
(Grayson ?), valley of Mexico (Mus. S. & G.). 
This is probably a more abnndant bird in Mexico than we are at present aware of, 
for the only records we have of its occurrence within our limits at all are one given 
by Grayson of its presence at Mazatlan * and the evidence of a skin in our possession 
which we found in a large collection of birds made near the city of Mexico. It seems, 
like C. cyanea and C. ciris, to be a migratory species in the United States, reaching 
its northern limits in British Columbia in May. It is also found in Arizona; hence it 
is doubtless to be found in the frontier State of Sonora and further southwards. 
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