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no. 4, 1876, 20 (descr. female). — Salvix, Ibis, 1874, 309 (crit.). — Salvik 

 an<l GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 362, pi. 25.— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 621. 

 P.lasserina} j-o-s-te Eidgway, INIan. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 449. 



CYANOSPIZA VERSICOLOR (Bonaparte). 

 VARIED BTJNTIKG. 



Adult tnale in summer. — Lores and narrow frontlet black; forehead, 

 fore part of crown, supra-auricular region, lower hindneck, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts light purplish blue or bluish purple (mauve to cam- 

 panula or flax-flower blue), the malar and auricular regions and lesser 

 wing-coverts similai' but darker; lower eyelid, spot on posterior por- 

 tion of upper eyelid, hind part of crown, occiput, and upper hindneck 

 vermilion red; back dusk}" purplish red, the scapulars more bluish or 

 purplish; chin blackish; throat and chest maroon purpli.sh, usually 

 more red on throat, where the red sometimes forms a distinct patch; 

 other under parts dusky purple (Indian purple or dark heliotrope pur- 

 ple), the flanks usually more grayish; wings dusky with dull grayish 

 blue and purplish edgings; tail blackish, edged with dull bkxe; max- 

 illa black or blackish brown; mandible light brownish or horn color 

 (pale grayish blue in life?); legs and feet black or brow^nish black. 



Adult male in %ointei\ — Similar to the summer male, but the bright 

 colors more or less obscured by grayish brown tips to the feathers of 

 pileum, back, and scapulars, and lighter, more bufl'y. tips to those of 

 the under parts, the larger wing-coverts and tertials also more or less 

 broadly tipped or edged with grajdsh brown. 



Adult female in summer. — Above grayish brown (hair brown) more 

 or less strongly tinged with olive (occasionalh^ tinged with dull light 

 grayish blue), passing into light glaucous or bluish gray on rump and 

 upper tail-coverts; tail bluish dusky, the rectrices edged with glau- 

 cous-bluish; middle and greater wing-coverts indistincth" tipped with 

 paler grayish brown, and primaries and adjoining secondaries edged 

 with pale glaucous-gray or l^luish; under parts dull whitish on throat, 

 abdomen, and tips of under tail-coverts: elsewhere pale grayish brown, 

 deepest on chest. " 



Adult female in ivinter and immature male in first minter. — Similar 

 to summer female, but deeper colored and browner, both above and 

 below, with only the center of lower abdomen distinctly whitish. 



Young female in first vnnter. — Above umber brown, paler on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts; edges of primaries and rectrices brownish gray, 

 the latter somewhat inclining to dull glaucous; under parts w^ood- 

 brown, paler on center of abdomen, the under tail-coverts pale brown- 

 ish grav, broadly margined and tipped with pale dull bufl'y. 



Young in first pluvnage. — Above grayish brown or drab (less oliva- 

 ceous than in summer female), the edges of retrices and primaries dull 



