SPOROPHILA. 449 



Gulf States, north to North Carolina ami southern Illinois ; 

 south, in winter, through eastern Mexico and Central Anieriea 



to Panama 601. P. ciris (Linn.). Painted Bunting. 



<P. Tail blue (duller in female). Adult male: Top of head bright yel- 

 lowish green ; rest of upper parts turquoise-blue, the back 

 tinged with green ; lores, eyelids, and lower parts gamboge- 

 yellow, deepening into orange on chest. Adult female : Above 

 graAMsh olive, tinged with green (especially on head), changing 

 to dull grayish blue on upper tail-coverts and tail ; lores, eye- 

 lids, and lower parts dull light-j-cllowish ; tinged with olive on 

 chest and sides. Length about 4.50-5.00, wing 2.45-2.75, tail 

 2.00-2.40. Hab. Southwestern Mexico (Puebla and Tehuante- 

 pec to Colima). 



P. leclancheri Lafr. Leclancher's Bunting ' 

 b\ Exposed culmen more than .45 ; depth of bill at base less than length of 

 bill from nostril. 



Adult male: Eich cobalt-blue, more purplish on top of head, and 

 changing gradually to fine cerulean-blue on posterior upper parts ; 

 ej-elids white; lores blackish; feathers of chest, breast, and upper 

 belly bright vermilion or scarlet immediately beneath the surface ; 

 lower belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts uniform delicate flesh- 

 pink. Adidt female: Above dull brown, changing to dull light 

 grayish blue on rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; lower parts 

 light tawny brown, changing to pinkish buff on bellj- and lower 

 tail-coverts. Length 5.25-5.55, wing 2.70-2.85, tail 2.20-2.30. Hab. 

 Southern Mexico (Tehuantepec). 



P. rositEE (Lawr ). Rosita's Bunting.^ 



Genus SPOROPHILA Cab.vnis. (Page 386, pi. CX., fig. 7.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Adult males varied with black and white, or palo cinna- 

 mon, or grayish (or all), the under wing-coverts and axillars, and spot at base of 

 quills (sometimes concealed by primarj- coverts), always white. Adult females plain 

 brownish above, the wing with or without whitish bands ; lower parts plain olive 

 or dull buff}-. 



rt'. Middle and gi-eatcr wing-coverts tipped with white, forming two more or less 

 distinct bands across wing. 



Adult male: Top and sides of head, back, scapulars, wings, upper tail-cov- 

 erts, tail, and hand across chest, black ; rump brownish, or brownish 

 gray ; spot on lower eyelid, chin, throat, broad collar round neck (some- 



' Pamrrtnn Uflnncheri Lafr., Mag. Zool. 1841, Ois. pi. 22. 

 ' Cyanotpita rorila Lawb., Ann. Lye. N. Y. X. Feb. IS74, 397. 

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