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Young. — Similar to adult female, but averaging rather })rowner, 

 especially on under parts, the back sometimes (especially in lirst 

 plumage) obsoletely streaked. (Immature males in second, and prob- 

 ably third, years are variously intermediate in coloration between 

 fully adult males and females.) 



Eastern United States and British Provinces; north to Maine, 

 Ontario, Minnesota, etc. (casually to New Brunswick); south in win- 

 ter to Bahamas, Cuba, and through eastern Mexico and Central 

 America to Veragua; west to eastern border of Great Plains, casually 

 to eastern Colorado (El Paso and Boulder counties). 



\_Tanagra] cyanca Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 315. 



{^Emhenza] cyanea GyiEhi-s, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 876. 



FringiUa cyonea Wil.sox, Am. Orn., i, 1810, 100, pi. 6, fig. 5. — Bonaparte, Am. 

 Orn., ii, 1828, 91, pi. 15, fig. 4.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 377; v, 1839, 

 503, pi. 74.— Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 100.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 473. — Willis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. 

 for 1858 (1859), 283 (Nova Scotia, accidental). 



Passerina cyanea Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 7. — Lembeye, 

 Aves de la Isla de Cnba, 1850, 130.— Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 96; Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 295.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 248; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 495 (Volcan de Irazii, Costa Rica); viii, 

 1885, 568 (Cozumel I., Yucatan).— Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 91 

 (Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, summer). — Chamberlain, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 105 (near St. Johns, New Brunswick, 1 spec, 

 June); Bull, i, Nat. Hist. Soc. N. B., 1882, 41 (St. Johns).— Bicknell, Auk, 

 ii, 1885, 151 (song). — Agersborc;, Auk, ii, 1885, 289 (s. e. South Dakota, 

 breeding) . — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 598. — 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 142 (Chietla, Puebla, Dec.) .— 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 211; Birds W. I., 1889, 98; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 112 

 (New Providence and San Salvador, Bahamas; Cuba). — Zeledon, An. Mus. 

 Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Santa Maria de Dota, El Zarcero de Alajuela, and 

 Pacuare, Costa Rica). —Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 218 (Elk R., Min- 

 nesota; Tom Green Co., w. Texas, fall, etc.); Birds Colorado, 1897, 109 (El 

 Paso and Boulder counties, 2 specs.). — Cherrie, Auk, vii, 1890, 334 (San 

 Jose, Costa Rica, May); ix, 1892, 247 (San Jose, etc., Oct., Nov.); Expl. 

 Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 29 (Lagarto and Buenos Aires, s. Costa Rica). — 

 Atkinson, Trans. Canad. Inst., iii, 1892, 47 (breeding near Toronto, Onta- 

 rio).— Chapm.\n, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 309 (near Trinidad, Cuba, 

 1 spec. Mar. 18) .—Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 493 (Rio 

 Escondido, Nicaragua, Sept., Oct.). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 214, pi. 28, figs. 1, 2.— Knight, Bull. Univ. Maine, no. 3, 1897, 103 

 (summer resid. whole State). 



[Passerina'] cyanea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 97, no. 7435. — Cory, List Birds 

 W. I., 1885, 12. 



P.^asserina'] cyanea' Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 391. — Ridciway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 448. 



Spiza cyanea J AniiisE, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., iii, 1832, 446. — Bonaparte, Geog. 

 and Comp. List, 1838, 35. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 109; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., iii, 1841, 96, pi. 170. — Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 87 (Indian Territory). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1856, 304 (Cordova, Vera Cruz).— Cab anis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 8 (Cuba).— 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



