63. CYANOSPIZA. 



621 



Some specimens, in full plumage, are more turquoise-blue than 

 cobalt in tint. These may be the younger birds of the previous 

 season. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 earthy brown, dingy greyish on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts pale greyish blue ; remainder of 

 the coverts and quills dusky brown, narrowly margined with dingy 

 blue, the median and greater coverts tipped with huffy white, forming 

 two wing-bars ; tail-feathers brown, margined with blue ; crown of 

 head like the back but with a bluish shade ; lores whitish, as also 

 the base of the forehead and eyelid ; ear-coverts pale brown ; cheeks, 

 throat, fore neck, and breast pale sandy buff ; the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts paler and more buffy whitish : sides of body and flanks 

 pale sandy buff, with narrow dusky stripes ; thighs brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries sandy buff, the edge of the wing bluish ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy along the inner webs. Total length 4-8 

 inches, culmen 035, wing 2 - 65, tail 2*1, tarsus 065. 



Hub. Western North America from the plains to the Pacific, ex- 

 tending into Mexico. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. 



c, d. $ ad. ; e. $ 



ad. sk. 

 f. ? ad. sk. 



ff. S ad. sk. 

 h. J ad. sk. 

 i. <$ ad. sk. 



k. $ ad. sk. 



I. $ ad. sk. 



m. <S ad. sk. 

 n. cJ ad. sk. 



o. <$ ad. sk. 



p. 2 ad- sk. 



q. cJ ad. sk. 



r. $ ad. sk. 

 s. c? ad. st. 



British Columbia (</. K. Lord). N. A. Boundary Com- 

 mission. 

 West side of Rocky Mountains. J. K. Lord,Esq. [P.]. 



Camp Lowell, Arizona, Aug. 



28, 1884 (F. Stephens). 

 California (Xantus). 

 California. 

 N. California, May 26 (C. H. 



Townsend ; Sm. no. 91694). 

 Walker's Basin, California, 



Aug. 28 (H. TV. Henshaw ; 



Sm. no. 79652). 

 Fort Tejon, Lower California, 



June 19 (/. Xantus; Sm. 



no. 25523). 

 California. 

 Haywards, California, June 



21, 1881 (IF. O. Emerson). 

 Bear Valley, California, June 



24, 1886 (F. Stephens). 

 Ogden, Utah, June 21 (C. H. 



Merriam ; Sm. no. 61712). 

 Great Salt Lake City, May 27 



(-R. Ridgioay; Sm.no. 5S596). 

 Near the City of Mexico. 

 Mexico. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



J. Gould, Esq. 



H. K. Coale, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 G. Frean Morcom, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Safvin-Godman Coll. 

 Purchased. 



4. Cyanospiza rositse. 



Cyanospiza rositse, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 397 (1874) ; Salv. 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 309 ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20 (1875) ; 

 Salving Godman,Biol. Centr.-Amer., Ares,i.f. 364, pi. xxv. (1885). 



Adult male. General colour above brilliant blue, more distinctly 



