cole: aves fkom yucatan. 143 



Common. Chapman says : " In notes and habits this subspecies resembles 

 C. cardinalis, but its brighter coloration is evident even at a distance." My 

 observations agree with his in regard to coloration, and so far as I could ascer- 

 tain, also as to habits ; but the song impressed me as markedly ditlerent from 

 the clear ringing whistle of C. cardinalis as I am familiar with it in our northern 

 States and in Bermuda. The note of the Yucatan bird seems to me to be 

 harsher and less musical, and to be uttered rather more rapidly. In my note 

 book I have it represented as follows : 



ch-ch-ivee, ch-ch-wee (two to four times), jiieu, pleu, pleu, pleu, pleu (five 

 to eight times). There is much variation from this ; for example, sometimes 

 only the first three or four notes are given and not followed by the second part 

 of the song. 



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123. Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linne). 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



One specimen : (plumage of 9 ) Chichen-Itza, 189- E. H. Thompson. 



124. Guiraca caerulea caerulea (Linne). 



Bine Grosbeak. 



One specimen : (plumage of $ in winter), Chichen-Itza, 189-, E. H. 

 Thompson. 



125- Cyanocompsa parellina parellina (Bonaparte). 



Blue Bunting. 

 Six specimens : 



a. $, Chichen-Itza, 1890, E. H. Thompson (Pablo Perera). 



b-e. (2 in plumage of (J, 2 in plumage of 9)> Chichen-Itza, 189-, 

 E. H. Thompson. 



f. (plumage of J ), Xbac (0, 1901, G. F. Gauraer. 



126. * Cyanospiza ciris (Linne). 



Passerina ciris (Linne'). Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1896. 8, p. 279. 



Nonpareil ; Painted Bunting. 



One specimen: Chichen-Itza, 189- E. H. Thompson. 



127. * Arremonops verticalis Ridgwat. 



Arretnonops rufivirgata striaticeps Ridgw. Chapman, Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 1896, 8, p. 280. 



Schott's Sparrow. 



One specimen : ^, March 19, 1904. 



Chapman reports this bird as abundant and " generally distributed in the 

 undergrowth about the borders of clearings, where they pass much of their 

 time on the ground." I found the bird not uncommon, but hardly abundant, 



