448 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



browner. Length 4.75-5.75, wing 2.G0-2.S0, tail 2.20-2.50. 

 Egijs .73 X -53, similar in color to those of P. amwna (sorae- 

 limes pure white). Hab. Eastern United States and more 

 southern Bi'itish Provinces, west to edge of Great Plains; 

 south, in winter, to Veragua. 



508. P. cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting, 

 e'. Culmen strongly curved ; cutting-odge of upper mandible di.s- 

 tinctly concave. Adult male: Forehead, superciliary region, 

 lesser wing-coverts, and rump lavcnder-hluo or purplish ; 

 crown and occiput wine-red, varj-ing to vermilion ; back 

 and scapulars maroon-purplish ; sides of head and neck, 

 and lower parts, generally plum-purplish, changing to au- 

 ricula-pur]ilo or maroon on chest, the throat usually more 

 reddish; lores black. Adult female : Above plain brown- 

 ish ; beneath entirely isabella-color, or dull grayish buif. 

 /'. Bather larger, or with longer wing and tail ; adult male 

 with red on occiput duller, purple of throat more 

 reddish (sometimes decidedly red), flanks duller and 

 grayer, and rump bluer ; length about 5.50, wing 

 (male) 2.65-2.S0 (2.71), tail 2.30-2.50 (2.39). Eggs .78 

 X -58, plain dull bluish white. Ilab. Eastern Mexico, 

 north to lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, south to 

 Puebla.. 600. P. versicolor (Bonap.). Varied Bunting. 

 /'. Eather smaller, or with shorter M'ing and tail; adult 

 male with red on occiput brighter, purple of throat 

 less reddish (never decidedly red ?), flanks brighter 

 plum-purplo, and rump more purplish blue, or. laven- 

 der; length about 5.50, wing (male) 2.50-2.G5 (2.53), 

 tail 2.05-2.30 (2.18). Ilah. Lower California and west- 

 ern Mexico (vicinity of Mnzatlan) GOO./. P. versi- 

 color pulchra lliDow. Beautiful Bunting.' 

 f'. Belly red or 3-ellow. 



rZ'. Tail purplish brown (male) or green (female). Adult male: Head 

 and neck purplish smalt-bluo ; eyelids, and entire lower parts, 

 including chin and throat, vermilion-red ; back and scapulars 

 yellowish green ; rump dull purplish red. Adult female and 

 young male: Above plain olive-green, including tail; beneath 

 dull olive j-ellowish. Young: Above dull olive, the wing-cov- 

 crts indistinctly tipped with paler; beneath dull pale graj-ish 

 bufl}-, the breast and sides very indistinctly clouded with gray- 

 ish brown. Length 4.25-5.50, wing about 2.C0-2.80, tail 2.45- 

 2.G0. Eggs .77 X -57, bluish white, speckled, chiefly on or round 

 larger end, with reddish brown. JIab. Southern Atlantic and 



' New subspecies ; typo, No. 87540, U. .S. Nut. Mud. Mirattoros, Lower Ciiliforni;i, A]iril I, 1SS2 ; L. BcIJing. 



