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



List of specimens. 



CYANOSPIZA AMOENA, Baird. 



Lazuli Finch. 



t^mbmza amoena, Say, Long's Exped. II, 1823, 47. 



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



Fringilla amoena, Ann. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 64, 230 ; pis. 393 and 434. 



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



Sp. Cii. — Male. Upper parts generally, witli the head and neck all round, greenish blue ; the interscapular region darker. 

 Upper part of breast pale brownish chestnut, separated from the blue of the throat by a faint white crescent ; rest of under 

 parts white. A white patch on the middle wing coverts, and an obscurely indicated white band across the ends of the greater 

 coverts. Loral region black. Length, about 5.50; wing, 3.90; tail, 2.60. 



Female. Brown above ; whitish beneath, with a trace of a buff pectoral band. 



Ilab. — High Central Plains to the Pacific. 



This species is about the size of 0. cyanea ; the bill exactly similar. The females of the 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 

 pale brownish bull". 



