448 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



browner. Length 4.75-5.75, wing 2.60-2.80, tail 2.20-2.50. 

 Eggs .73 X -53, similar in color to those of P. amcena (some- 

 times pure white). Hab. Eastern United States and more 

 southern British Provinces, west to edge of Great Plains ; 

 south, in winter, to Veragua. 



598. P. cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting. 

 e^. Culmen stronglj^ curved ; cutting-edge of upper mandible dis- 

 tinctly concave. Adult male: Forehead, superciliary region, 

 lesser wing-coverts, and rump lavender-blue or purplish ; 

 crown and occiput wine-red, varying to vermilion ; back 

 and scapulars maroon-purplish ; sides of head and neck, 

 and lower parts, generally plum-purplish, changing to au- 

 ricula-purple or maroon on chest, the throat usually more 

 reddish ; lores black. Adult female : Above plain brown- 

 ish ; beneath entirely isabella-color, or dull grayish buff. 

 /^. Eather larger, or with longer wing and tail ; adult male 

 with red on occiput duller, pui-ple of throat more 

 reddish (sometimes decidedly red), flanks duller and 

 grayer, and rump bluer ; length about 5.50, wing 

 (male) 2.65-2.80 (2.71), tail 2.30-2.50 (2.39). Eggs .78 

 X -58, plain dull bluish white. Hab. Eastern Mexico, 

 north to lower Eio Grande Valley in Texas, south to 

 Puebla.. 600. P. versicolor (Bonap.). Varied Bunting. 

 f'K Eather smaller, or with shorter wing and tail ; adidt 

 male with red on occiput brighter, purple of throat 

 less reddish (never decidedly red?), flanks brighter 

 plum-purple, and rump more purplish blue, or laven- 

 der ; length about 5.50, wing (male) 2.50-2.65 (2.53), 

 tail 2.05-2.30 (2.18). Hab. Lower California and west- 

 ern Mexico (vicinity of Mazatlan).. — . P. versicolor 

 pulchra Eidgw. Beautiful Bunting.^ 

 c^ Belly red or yellow. 



d\ Tail purplish brown (male) or green (female). Adult male : Head 

 and neck purplish smalt-blue ; eyelids, and entire lower parts, 

 including chin and throat, vermilion-red ; back and scapulars 

 yellowish green ; rump dull purplish red. Adidt female and 

 young male: Above plain olive-green, including tail; beneath 

 dull olive yellowish. Young : Above dull olive, the wing-cov- 

 erts indistinctly tipped with paler ; beneath dull pale grayish 

 buffy, the breast and sides very indistinctly clouded with gray- 

 ish brown. Length 4.25-5.50, wing about 2.60-2.80, tail 2.45- 

 2.60. Eggs .77 X -57, bluish white, speckled, chiefly on or round 

 larger end, with reddish brown. Hab. Southern Atlantic and 



1 New subspecies ; type, No. 87540, U. S. Nat. Mus. Miraflores, Lower California, April 4, 1882 ; L. Belding. 



