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U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



CYANOSPIZA AMOENA, Baird. 



Lazuli Fiucli* 



Emberiza amoena, Say, Long's E.\ped. II, 1823, 47. 



Fringilla {Spiza) amoena, Bonap. Am. Orn. I, 1825, Gl ; pi. vi, f. 5. 



Fringilla amoena, AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 64, 230 ; pis. 398 and 424. 



Spiza amoena, Bonap. List, 1838.— Ann. Syn. 1839, 109.— Ib. liirils Am. Ill, 1841, 100 ; pi. 171. 



Sp. Oh. — Male. Upper parts generally, with the liead and neck all round, greenish liliie ; the intersrapular region ilarker. 

 Upper part of breast pale brownish chestnut, separated from the blue of tlie throat by a faint wliito ercscont ; rest of under 

 parts white. A white patcli on tlic middle wing coverts, and an obscurely indicated while band across the ends of tlie greater 

 coverln. Loral region Idack. Longih, about 5.50; wing, 3.90; tail, 2.60. 



Female . Brown above ; wliitish beneatli, with a trace of a bull' pectoral band . 



//aft. — High Central Plains to the Paeilic. 



Tliis species ia about tlie size of C. cyanea ; the bill exactly similar. Tlie females of tlie two 

 species are scarcely distinguishable, except by the faint traces of one or two white bands on the 

 wings in amoena. Sometimes both the throat and upper part of the breast are tinged with 

 l)ale brownish buff. 



