PASSERES— FRINGILLIDAE-CYANOSPIZA CIRIS, 



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GYANOSPIZA CIRIS (Liiiii.). 

 IVonpareil. 



Emhvriza ciris, LiNN., Kong. Sv. Vet. Akad. Haud., 1750, 278, tab. vii, f. i. 



iSjnza ciris, WooDH., Sitgreave's Exp. Ztiui & Col. Riv., 1854, 87 (Texas). 



Cyaiiospiza ciris, Heerm., P. R. R. Rep., Park's Route, x, 1859, 14.— Bd., U. S. & Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 17.— Kennerly, P. R. R. Rep., 

 Whipple's Route, X, 1859, 30 (San Autonio, Texas).— CouES, Key, 1872, 149. 



This, one of the most conspicuous among all our birds for the beauty 

 and brilliant colors of its plumage, is quite southern in its distribution ; being 

 known from the Southern States generally, and extending along to the west- 

 ward into Texas, where it is stated to be veiy numerous. That it also 

 occurs along the southern border of New Mexico is scarcely doubtful, since 

 farther west, in Southeastern Arizona, it was met Avith in two localities, 

 Camps Bowie and Crittenden. Quite a number of young and one adult 

 male were noted at the former place ; wliile, in the neighborhood of the 



