64. P0RPHTR0SPIZA. 



625 



and on the lower breast and abdomen, sides of body, and flanks ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts somewhat paler ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries like the breast; quills below dusky, fulvous along 

 the inner web. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-35, 

 tail 2, tarsus 0-7. 



Hub. Texas; Michigan rarely; Lower California, breeding. 

 Central America : Mexico and Guatemala. 



a. $ ad. sk. 



b. S ad. sk. 



c. d. S 2 ad. 

 juv. sk. 



/. 2 ad. sk - 

 g. Imm. sk. 



h, i. Ad. st. 

 k. $ ad. sk. 



e.Q 



Mexico. 



Orizaba, Mexico. 



Presidio, W. Mexico, Feb. 13 



{A. Forrer). 

 Presidio, Jan. ] 9 (A. Forrer). 

 Mazatlan, December 26 (A. 



Forrer). 

 Mexico. 

 Guatemala. 



64. PORPHYROSPIZA. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Purchased. 



G. U. Skinner, Esq. 



[C.]. 



Porphvrospiza, Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Ne.otr. p. 

 (1873) 



!0 



Type. 

 P. pulchra. 



Range. Brazil. 



Head of Porphyrospiza pulchra. 



1. Porphyrospiza pulchra *. 



? Spiza cserulea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 474 (1850). 

 Cyauospiza cyanella, Feb. Orn. Bras. p. 227 (1871). 

 Porphyrospiza cyanella, Scl. $■ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873). 

 Porphyriospiza cyanella, Salv. Cat. Sirickl. Coll. p. 226 (1882). 



Adult male. General colour above dark blue : lesser wing-coverts 

 bright cobalt, forming a shoulder-patch ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, edged with a little brighter blue than the back ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with 

 blue like the back ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, edged with blue like the back ; crown of head like the 



* This species is generally known as P. cyanella, founded on the Ember iza 

 cyanella of Sparrman (Alus. Carls, fasc. ii. pis. 42, 43, 1787). Span-man's 

 plates appear to me to represent without a shadow of doubt Cyanospka 

 cyanea (L.), and it is extremely unlikely that he had the opportunity of figuring 

 such a rare bird as the present species, to which a new name must be assigned. 



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