GUIRAGA CCERULEA. 439 



Lint 0/ njjeci metis. 



21, nest and eggs (3); Sacramento, California, June 11, 1S07. Nest in willow, 

 about ten feet from ground. Male on nest iclien found. 



22, ? ad. (parent of eggs No. 21); Sacramento, California, .func 11, ISOT. .Si— 

 13— 4J— 3i— 3— 5— 34— 2. Upper mandible, slate-color, lower bluish-wLite, with tinge 

 of lilaceous beneath; iris, dark hazel: tarsi and toes, pure light ashy-blue. 



32, $ ad.; Sacramento, June 12, 1867. 8— 12^— 4J— 3yij_|_J_3j_i|. Same 

 remarks. 



173, <J juv.; West Humboldt Mountains, September 7, 1867. ^~l^ 4y»g 3 ' 



— i — 5 — ^i — 18- Same remarks. 



504, $ ad.; Truckee Reservation, May 15, 1868. 8|^13^(?)_3i. Same re- 

 marks. 



80-1, nest and eggs (3); Truckee River, June G, 1868. Nest in buflalo-berry 

 thicket. 



964, (J ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 1869. 



1036, <? ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 24, 1809. 8^—125. Upper mandible, 

 slate-color, lower bluish- white; iris, brown; tarsi and toes, plumbeous. 



1062, $ ad.; Salt Lake City, May 27, 1869. 8J— 12|. 



1300, nest and eggs (3); Parley's Park, Wahsatch Mountains, Utah, June 27, 1869. 

 Nest in willows along stream. Male on nest. 



1324, ne.st; Parley's Park, June 28, 1869. Nest in a willow copse. 



1399, eggs; Cash Valley, Utah, July, 1869. [J. C. Olmstead.] 



1474, 9 juv.; Parley's Park, July 29, 1869. 8J— 12|. Bill, dull lead-color, darker 

 on culmen, lighter and more pinkish toward gonys; iris, brown; tarsi and toes, ashy- 

 blue. 



GUIRACA CCERULEA. 



Blue Orosbvnk. 



Loxia cwnilea, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1706, 306. 



Guiraca ccerulea, Swains., Philos. Mag., 1, 1827, 438.— Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 



499 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 382.— COOPEB, Orn. Cal., 1, 1870, 2.30.— B. 



B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, If, 1874, 77, pi. XXIX, figs. 4, 5.— Hen.SHAW, 



1875, 298. 



Goniaphea cwriUea, ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 301.— Coues, Key, 

 1872, 149, fig. 93; Check List, 1873, No. 195; Birds N.W., 1874, 169. 



The Blue Grosbeak was met with only at Sacramento, where it wjis 

 a very common bird in the bushy fields in the outskirts of the city. 

 The distribution of this species is quite remarkable, it being more or less 

 common on both coasts northward as far, at least, as the parallel of 40', 

 but of exceedingly rare occurrence in the Interior, except along the south- 

 ern border. This fact seems equally true of the eastern half of the conti- 

 nent as of the western, for there are few local lists pertaining to the Missis- 



