590 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Oaxaca, Apr., Oct.). — Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1883, 421 (Acapuk'o). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 362 (Cacoprieto, Oax- 

 aca, etc.) .— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 622. 



ICyanospiza^ ledancheri Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 29. 



Clyanospizal ledancheri Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 82. 



CYANOSPIZA ROSITiE Lawrence. 

 ROSITAS BUNTING. 



AdnJt male. — Above rich eeriiloan blue, becoming more purplish 

 blue on head (ultramarine, or almost smalt on crown); tail dull ceru- 

 lean blue with black shafts; outer webs of secondaries dull turquoise 

 blue, the primaries dusky edged with the same; orbital ring (inter- 

 rupted in front) pure white; chin grayish white; throat cerulean blite; 

 chest and breast and upper abdomen mixed cerulean blue and scarlet, 

 the former on tips of the feathers, the latter mostly beneath the sur- 

 face, but more or less exposed, especiall}" in center of l)reast and 

 upper abdomen; flanks, lower abdomen, anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts pure salmon-pink; maxilla blackish, mandiltle pale grayish 

 blue (in life); iris brown; legs and feet "livid plumbeous"; length 

 (skins), 131.57-139.70 (135.64); wing, 69.3-1-72.14 (71.37); tail. 52.83- 

 54.36 (53.59); exposed culmen, 13.46-14.99 (14.48); depth of bill at 

 base, 8.89-9.91 (9.40); tarsus, 17.02-17.53 (17.27); middle toe, 11.68- 

 13.21 (12.45).^ 



Adadt female. — Pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, larger wing- 

 coverts, and tertials hair brown, the pileum rather darker, sometimes 

 more or less tinged with blue, the back sometimes tinged with olive- 

 greenish; lesser wing-coverts, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail light 

 grayish blue (glaucous blue or verditer), the tail brighter blue; pri- 

 maries edged with dull light greenish blue; luider parts deep pinkish 

 bufl", darker and browner laterally; under tail-coverts cream l)uft, more 

 pinkish anteriorly; length (skins), 122.68-127.76 (126.24); wing, 66.04- 

 70.10 (68.33); tail, 48.01-51.31 (50.04); exposed culmen, 13.72-14.48 

 (13.97); depth of bill at base, 8.38-9.14 (8.64); tarsus, 16.51-17.78 

 (17.27); middle toe, 11.18-12.45 (11.94)..^ 



Young. — Above plain hair brown, the tail dull grayish verditer blue; 

 beneath paler hair brown becoming bufly whitish on abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts, the median portion of l)reast, apparently, obso- 

 letel}^ streaked. 



Southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Cacoprieto; Santa Efigenia) 

 and Chiapas (La Trinidad). 



Cyanospiza rositx Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, Mar., 1874,397 

 (Cacoprieto, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Bulh U. S. Nat. Mus. 



' Four specimens. 



