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List of specimens. 



21, uest <iud eggs (3); Sacramento, Oivlifornia, June 11, 1867. Nest iu willow, 

 about ten feet from ground. 31ale on neat tvhen found. 



22, ? ad. (parent of eggs No. 21); Sacramento, California, Juno 11, 1867. 8|— 



13 4| 3^ 3 g — 3| — 2. Upper mandible, slate-color, lower bluish-white, with tinge 



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



32, i ad.; Sacramento, June 12, 1867. 8— 12^— 4J— 3/g— a— J— 3J— Ig. Same 

 remarks. 



173, S juv'.; West Humboldt Mountains, September 7, 1867. 8|— 12i|— 4yi.— 3/^ 

 — 5 — I — 3J — 1|. Same remarks. 



564, <J ad.; Truckee Reservation, May 15, 1868. Sii— 13^(1)— 3A. Same re- 

 marks. 



804, nest and eggs (3); Truckee River, June 6, 1868. Nest iu bufialo-berry 

 thicket. 



904, S ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 1869. 



1036, <? ad.; Salt Lake City, Utah, May 24, 1869. SJ— 12J. Upper mandible, 

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



1062, i ad.; Salt Lake City, May 27, 1869. 8J— 12f . 



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

 Nest iu willows along stream. Male on nest. 



1324, nest; Parley's Park, June 28, 1869. Nest iu 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 aud toes, ashy- 

 blue. 



GUIRACA CCERULEA. 



Blue Orosbcak. 



Loxia ceerulea, Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1766, 306. 



Ouiraca ceerulea, Swains., Philos. Mag., 1, 1827, 438.— Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 



499 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 382— Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1, 1870, 230.— B. 



B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, II, 1874, 77, pi. xxix, figs. 4, 5.— Henshaw, 



1875, 298. 

 Goniaphea ceerulea, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 301. — CouES, Key, 



1872, 149, fig. 93; Check List, 1873, No. 193; Birds N.VV., 1874, 169. 



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

 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- 

 em border. This fact seems equall)^ true of the eastern half of the conti- 

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



