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(?) Guiraca cyanea (not Lo.r I a ci/anea Linnaeus) Sclater and Salvix, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1873, 264 (Nauta, lower Ucayali, and Chyavetas, e. Peru; crit. ). — 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., xii, 1888, 71, part. 

 Ghdraca njanea Chapman, Ank, vii, 1890, 268 (Santarem, Lower Amazon). 



CYANOCOMPSA PARELLINA PARELLINA iBonapartei. 

 BLUE BUNTING. 



Adult I Mile. — Dark cyaniue or marine blue, becoming- bright cobalt 

 or azure blue on forehead, cheeks, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts; lores black; wings and tail black with bluish edg- 

 ings; maxilla blackish or dusky horn color; mandible grayish horn 

 color; iiis brown; legs and feet brownish black or dusky horn color. 



Adult female and young. — Above brown (nearly raw umber), beneath 

 paler (wood brown or cinnamon-brown), paler still on throat and 

 abdomen. 



Adult //?r//r.— Length (skins), 118.11-132.08 (125.1:8); wing, 68.07- 

 71.12 (69.60); tail, 53.34-.56.61: (55.12); culmen, from base, 11.94- 

 12.70 (12.-15); depth of bill at base, 7.62-9.91 (8.89); width of man- 

 dible at base, 7.11-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 18.03-20.32 (19.05); middle toe, 

 11.43-13.21 (12.45).' 



Adult f&tnale.—\^^w^\ki (skins), 116.84-130.81 (124.21); wing, 64.26- 

 67.31 (66.04): tail, 50.29-55. 12 (52.58); culmen, from base. 11.43- 

 12.45 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 8.6J-8.89; width of mandible at 

 base, 7.37-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 18.29-19.05 (18.80); middle toe, 12.45- 

 12.70 (12.64).- 



Eastern Mexico, in States of Nuevo Leon (Boquillo, Sierra Madre, 

 Monterey), Tamaulipas (Alta Mira), San Luis Potosi (Valles), Puebla, 

 (Metlaltoyuca), Vera Cruz (Mirador, Chichicaxtli, Alvarado, Cordova, 

 Jalapa, San Andres Tuxtla, Totontepec, etc.). Tabasco (Frontera), and 

 Yucatan (Merida, La Vega, Puerto Morelos, etc.). 



\^('\janohjxia\ parellina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Aug. 15, 1850, 502 (Alvarado, 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico; Berlin Mus. ; ex Fringilla parellina Lichtenstein, manu- 

 script). 



Goniaphea parellina Sclater, Proc. Zool. tSoc. Lond., 1856, 302 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz). 



Goniaphsea parellina Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 228 (San Andres 

 Tuxtla, Vera Cruz) . 



Cyanospiza parellina Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 502 (Sierra Madre, 

 Nuevo Leon; Tamaulipas) ; ed. 1860 ("Birds X. Am."), atlas, pi. 56, fig. 1; 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 383; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 

 ii, 1859, 17, pi. 18, fig. 1 (Sierra Madre, Nuevo Leon). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 29, fig. 6 (no text). — Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1869, 551 (hot region of Vera Cruz up to 800 

 meters) . 



Guiraca pareUina Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 

 (?) 378 (Totontepec, Oaxaca^); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 101 (Jalapa).— 



1 Eighteen specimens. Tour specimens. * Perhaps C. p. sumichrasti. 



