290 AVES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 
spicuous; Q ashy brown, more or less washed with red. L. 84. 
W. 4. T. 44. E. U. S., southerly, N. to Mass. and N. Wis. ; 
abundant. <A brilliant songster, much sought as a cage bird. (Lat., 
from color of cardinal’s hat.) 
492. HABIA Reichenbach. (A South American name.) 
932. H. ludoviciana (L.). Rosr-BREASTED GROSBEAK. ¢ 
with head, neck and upper parts mostly black, with white on rump, 
wings and tail; belly white; breast and under wing coverts of an 
exquisite rose-red; bill very stout, pale; Q olive brown, much 
streaked, with the under wing coverts saffron yellow; head with 
whitish stripes. L. 83. W.4. T. 31. E. N. Am.,, abundant; 
perhaps our handsomest bird, and one of the most brilliant song- 
sters. (Lat., Louisianian.) 
493. GUIRACA Swainson. (S. Am. name.) 
933. G. coerulea (L.). Buiure GrosBeak. ( rich blue; 
feathers about bill, wings and tail, black; wing bars chestnut; 9 
yellowish brown, with whitish wing bars. L. 7. W. 34. T. 23. 
Southern, N. to N. Y. and Wis., rare; a fine songster. 
494. PASSERINA Vieillot. (From passer.) 
934. P. cyanea (L.). Inpico Birp. ¢ indigo blue, clear on 
head, greenish behind; 9 plain warm brown, obscurely streaky, 
known from other small sparrows by a dusky line along the gonys. 
L. 53. W.3. TT. 23. XE. U.S., abundant in summer; a tireless 
songster. (Lat., blue.) 
935. P. ciris (L.). NoNpAREIL. PAINTED Buntine. head 
and neck blue; under parts, etc., vermilion ; shoulders, etc., green ; 
rump and tail purplish-brown; @ green, yellowish below. — L. 54. 
W. 22. T. 24. Southern, N. to 8. Ill. (JVelson.) (keipis, name 
of some bird.) 
495. SPIZA Bonaparte. (emia, old name of some sparrow.) 
936. S. americana (Gmelin). BLACK-THROATED BUNTING. 
“ DICK SISSEL.” Grayish and streaked above ; wing coverts chest- 
nut; line over eye, maxillary stripe, edge of wing, breast and part 
of belly yellow; throat patch black; otherwise white below; 9? 
with little chestnut, and the black reduced to dark streaks. L. 632. 
W. 34. T. 23. Fields, Conn. to Kansas, chiefly W.; a handsome 
bird with sleek plumage, and a peculiar, but scarcely musical song, 
incessantly repeated in hot weather. 
937. S. townsendi (Audubon). Upper parts, head, neck, etc., 
slaty blue; no chestnut, and little yellow or black. A single speci- 
men known from Penn., perhaps a hybrid. (To. J. K. Townsend.) 
