364 FRINGILLID&. 
C. amena is a western species, replacing the eastern C. cyanea in the west, many of 
the habits of the two, such as the song, being very similar. ‘The nest is described as 
strongly built of finely interwoven grasses, lined with horsehair and cobwebs, and 
placed in a fork of a bush a few feet from the ground. The eggs are light blue when 
fresh, this colour soon fading to bluish white ?. 
5. Cyanospiza cyanea. 
Tanagra cyanea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 315°. 
Cyanospiza cyanea, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 379 >; 1864, p. 174°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 18°; 
P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 2°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 180°; 
ix. pp. 1038, 201°; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20"; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 140”; 
Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 301”; Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190"; Ibis, 1872, p. 3817"; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 224°; Ibis, 1885, p. 190”; 
Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 82°; Gundl. Av. Cub. p.93°; Sennett, Bull. U.S. 
Geol. Surv. iv. p. 20”; Boucard, P. Z. 8S. 1883, p. 444"; Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. vi. pp. 873”, 883°, 392 ™. 
Passerina cyanea, Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 891”. 
Cerulea, capite saturatius, corpore reliquo certa luce viridescente ; alis caudaque fusco-nigricantibus, dorsi colore 
limbatis ; rostro corneo; pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 4°7, ale 2°7, caude 2°1, tarsi 0°75. (Descr. maris 
ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
@ brunnea, alis caudaque fuscis dorsi colore limbatis; subtus pallide fusco-alba, pectore et hypochondriis fusco 
striatis. (Descr. femine ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Norta America, Eastern States from Canada to Kansas, Indian ‘Territory and 
Texas 18 20 25M xico, Guanajuato (Dugés 11), valley of Mexico (White ?), State of 
Vera Cruz in winter (Sumichrast!”), Totontepec, Playa Vicente, Oaxaca (Boucard ), 
Santa Efigenia (Sumichrast !°), Merida in Yucatan (Schott ®), Progreso (Gawmer **), 
Cozumel I. (Devis1"); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA 
(Constancia 16), Duefias (O. 8.4), Escuintla, Retalhuleu, San Gerénimo, Coban (0. S. 
& F.D. G.); Satvapor, La Union (0. S.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely®); 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt), Sucuyé?%, Omotepe I.?°, San Juan del Sur” 
(Nutting), Greytown (LHolland’); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius®*™), Barranca, San 
José, Dota Mountains (Carmiol’), Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Arcé). 
—Cusa . 
The Indigo-bird, under which name this species is known in the Eastern States of North 
America, is a winter visitor to Mexico and Central America, at which season it spreads — 
over a large part of the country as far south as the State of Panama. Itsrange in Mexico 
is mostly confined to the eastern part of that country, for, though traced to Guanajuato 
and the valley of Mexico, it is absent from the western parts until. we reach the 
isthmus of Tehuantepec, a range of distribution followed by several birds whose summer 
quarters embrace the eastern States of the northern continent. 
In Guatemala it is common, and may usually be seen in small flocks consisting of 
birds in various stages of plumage, adult males being rarely seen. It is here a dull 
