586 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ci/anospi:a amoena^ Baird, Eep. Pacitic R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 504; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 386.— Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort 

 Tejon, California).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New 

 Mexico).— Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, I860, 

 205 (Puget Sound, Dalles, etc.) .— Browx, Ibis, 1864, 423 (Vancouver I.). — 

 Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 233.— Allen, Bull. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 145 

 (Cheyenne, Wyoming), 178 (w. edge of Great Plains; Colorado, up to 8,000 

 ft.; Ogden, Utah); Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 45, 59 (Fort Rice, etc., 

 North Dakota).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 200; Birds N. W., 1874, 170.— 

 Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276 (Mazatlan). — Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 84, pi. 29, figs. 11, 12.— Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 63 (Denver, Colorado), 120 

 (Apache and San Pedro, Arizona, Aug. to Oct. ) ; Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 

 1875, 300 ( localities in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; habits) . — Snow, 

 Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 7 (w. Kansas, summer resid.).— Ridgway, Orn. 

 40th Parallel, 1877, 490 (Sacramento, California; Nevada; Utah; habits, 

 etc.).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 419 (centr. California).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr. -Am., Aves, i, 1886, 363 (valley of 

 Mexico) .—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 620. 



[Cijaiiospisa'] amccna Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 150. 



{Passenna'] amccna Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 97, no. 7436. 



Passerina anuena Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 96; Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 296.— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 249.— 

 Belding and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 541 (La Paz, Lower 

 California, winter) .— Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 281 (s. e. Dakota, breeding).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 599. — Cooke, Bird 

 INIigr. Miss. Val., 1888, 219 (Vermilion, S. Dakota, and Ellis, Kansas, sum- 

 mer) .—Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H, iii, 1890, 148 (British Columbia, 

 chiefly east of Cascade Mts.).— Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 38 

 (chiefly east of Cascade Mts.; rare on A^ancouver I.). — Goss, Birds Kansas, 

 1891, 491 (w. Kansas, rare summer resid.). — Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1893, 52, 64 (bet. Coast Range and Rocky Mts., British Columbia) .— 

 Richmond and Knowlton, Auk, xi, 1894, 306 (s.-centr. Montana). — Nehr- 

 LiNG, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 219, pi. 28, fig. 4. 



P.[asserina'] ammia Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed, 1884, 391. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 447. 



CYANOSPIZA CIRIS (Linnaeus). 

 NONPAREIL; PAINTED BUNTING. 



Adult male. — Head and neck, except chin and throat, purplish blue 

 (smalt or hyacinth); back and scapulars bright yellowish green (apple 

 green) or greenish 3^ellow; rump and upper tail-coverts purplish red; 

 orbital ring (more or less complete), and under parts, including throat, 

 vermilion red; greater wing-coverts parrot green; middle coverts dull 

 reddish purple, lesser coverts dull purplish blue; remiges dusky, edged 

 with dull purplish and green; rectrices dull dusky reddish or purplish; 



' Many of the references to this combination, including nearly all the more recent 

 ones, give oe in the diphthong form (a>); but I have not attempted to sort the 

 references according to this difference. 



