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Mr. Bekling, who was the first to detect this Groslieak in Lower California, 

 saw only two individuals, — both at San Jose del Cabo, in the spring of 1SS2. 

 In the neighborhood of this town Mr. Frazar found the birds not nncomiaon in 

 the autumn of 1887, taking no less than twelve at various dates between 

 August 28 and November 4. A single specimen was also shot at San Jose 

 del Rancho on December 20. 



Mr. Bryant met with the Western Blue Grosbeak at Comondu, where " those 

 which were taken had been feeding in a patch of growing wheat," and Mr. 

 Anthony found it " very common in all the coast valleys from San Quintin 

 northward." i It should breed on the Peninsula, but we do not know that it 

 ever does so. It is a rather common summer resident in California, especially 

 in the southern counties near the coast. In western Mexico my collectors have 

 found it nesting as far south as Oposura, and have obtained specimens in win- 

 ter and early spring about Alamos. Its winter range is said to extend through 

 Central America to southern Costa Rica. 



Cyanospiza amoena (Sat). 



Lazuli Buntixg. 



Passerina amoena Beldtng, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 541 (Cape Region). 

 Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 305 (Cape Region). 



;Mr. Belding and Mr. Frazar are quite in accord respecting this species, lioth 

 characterizing it as somewhat uncommon in the Cape Region. If, as seems 

 most probable from the evidence at hand, it does not breed there, it arrives 

 from the north rather early, for Mr. Frazar took a specimen at Triunfo on 

 August 15. He saw the greatest nunil)er, however, at San Jose del Cabo in 

 September and October. None were observed by him either at La Paz or on 

 the Sierra de la Laguna, but two were taken at Triunfo on December 9, and a 

 third at San Jose del Rancho on December 23. The last two dates indicate, 

 that at least a few birds spend the winter in this region. 



Mr. Bryant found tlie Lazuli Bunting " rare at Comondu and northward." 

 Mr. Anthony states that it was abundant about San Pedro Martir, where " one 

 or two were seen on top of the mountain." '^ It breeds from southern Cali- 

 fornia to British Columbia, and in winter goes as far south as Mazatlan, in 

 western Mexico. 



Cyanospiza versicolor pulehra (Ridgw.). 



Beautiful Buxtixg. 



Cyanospiza versicolor (not Spiza versicolor Boxaparte) Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 301 (Cape St. Lucas), 304 (crit. ; Cape St. Lucas). Cooper, 

 Orn. Cal., 1870, 234, 235, part (Cape St. Lucas). Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 



1 Zee, IV. 1898, 243. ' 2 /5,-^_ 



