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FRINGILLID^. 



*[372.] Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linnaeus). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



373. Cyanocompsa concreta cyanescens Ridgway. Panama Blue Grosbeak. 



Two males and a female, Gatun, July 30, 1911; August 11, 1912; 

 June 18, 1911. Iris brown, bill bluish-horn color, feet black. 



Nest a frail cup of fine twigs lined with vine tendrils in crotch of 

 bush five feet up in a thicket. Eggs two, bluish-w^hite, wreathed 

 heavily at the larger end with reddish and purplish brown, .82 x .71 in. 



A bird of thickets and heavy forest. 



374. Oryzoborus funereus Solater. Lesser Rice Grosbeak. 



Male, Ft. Lorenzo, June 21, 1911. 

 Associates with the next. 



375. Sporophila aurita (Bonaparte). Hicks' Seedeater. 



Three males and three females, Gatun, March 22, April 13, De- 

 cember 24, 1911; June 25, 1911, June 2 and August 11, 1912. Iris 

 brown, bill blackish-horn, feet gray-brown. 



Nest a thin-walled cup, made entirely of fine reddish-brown tendrils, 

 situated in the terminal twigs of a small sapling, fifteen feet from the 

 ground. Eggs two, heavily incubated (June 25), white, very heavily 

 marked all over with brown and with some wash of lavender at the 

 larger end, .66 x .51 in. Another nest August 11, 1912, contained two 

 eggs nearly fresh, .69 x .53 and .70 x .53 in. 



Occurs in flocks of a dozen feeding on seeds in grass and shrubbery 

 in open places and in second growth. 



[376.] Sporophila grisea schistacea (Lawrence). Slate-colored Seedeater. 

 [377.] Sporophila minuta minuta (Linnaeus). Minute Seedeater. 

 [378.] Sporophila gutturalis (Lichtenstein). Yellow-bellied Seedeater. 



379. Tiaris olivacea pusilla (Swainson). Mexican Grassquit. 



j\Iale and female, Gatun, December 24, 1911, and April 7, 1912. 

 Iris brown, bill horn-brown, feet gray-brown. 

 Common in second growth. 



380. Volatinia jacarini splendens (Vieillot). Blue-black Grassquit. 



Three males and two females, March 22 and November 26, 1911, 

 July 21, 1912; April 13 and December 24, 1911. Iris black, bill black 

 above bluish below, feet blue-black. 



Flocks with Sporophila aurita. 



Nest (July 21, 1912) in clump of weeds, two feet from the ground, a 

 frail thin-walled cup of fine vine tendrils or rootlets. Eggs two, fresh, 

 pale bluish or greenish-white heavily spotted with brown, lavender 

 and burnt umber, denser at the larger end, .69 x .51. and .68 x .51 in, 



[381.] Amaurospiza concolor Cabanis. Cabanis' Seedeater. 



