150 FRINGILLIDH, FINCHES, ETC.—GEN. 82, 83. 
bars. Plains to the Pacific, replacing cyanea; common. Nurt., i, 478; 
Aup:, iii,7100 pl. wi7ass Bp: b04 ee COOr ss 233. auesee akan ane ay AW ICHNAS 
Indigo bird. Adult g¢ indigo-blue, intense and constant on the head, 
glancing greenish with different lights on other parts; wings and tail black- 
ish glossed with greenish-blue ; feathers around base of bill black: bill dark 
above, rather paler below, with a curious black stripe along the gonys. 9 
above plain warm brown, below whitey-brown, obsoletely streaky on the 
breast and sides, wing coverts and inner quills pale-edged, but not whitish ; 
upper mandible blackish, lower pale, with the black stripe just mentioned — 
this is a pretty constant feature, and will distinguish the species from any of 
our little brown birds. Young ¢ is like the 9, but soon shows blue traces, 
and afterward is blue with white variegation below. Size of the foregoing. 
Eastern United States, abundant, in fields and open woodland, in summer ; 
a well meaning but rather weak vocalist. Wuus., i, 100, pl. 6, f. 5; Nurr., 
ie iho. ANuidees its We eel Wein bs HU, a wo Be wo 6 | ONAN 
82. Genus SPERMOPHILA Swainson. 
Morelet’s Finch. Top and sides of head, back of neck, broad band across 
upper part of breast, middle of back, wings and tail, black; chin, upper 
throat and neck all round, except behind, rump, and 
Le remaining under parts, white, the latter tinged with 
eS brownish-yellow ; two wing-bands, and concealed bases ot 
na all the quills, also white. 9 olivaceous above, brownish- 
yellow below, wings and tail somewhat as in the @. 
Length about 4 inches; wing 2; tail less. Mexico to 
Texas. Bop., 507. /S.-albigularis Lawr., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., v, 1851, 
PQ eS ra ta ae! ea a es Me? Eten) oc eee eee LORE RTS 
Fic. 94. Morelet’s Finch. 
82bis. Genus PHONIPARA Bonaparte. 
Black-faced Finch. @ dark olive green, paler below, grayish-white on 
the belly; head, throat and breast more or less blackish; wings and _ tail 
dusky, unmarked, with olivaceous gloss; upper mandible blackish, lower 
pale. The ¢ lacks the black of the g, but is otherwise similar. About 
4 inches long; wing 2; tail 13. A West Indian bird, the occurrence of 
which, in Florida, I learn from advance sheets of Mr. C. J. Maynard’s work 
on the Birds of Florida, now publishing. (Not in the 
Keyed arate pk hee) Salata oR TOORORS 
83. Genus PYRRHULOXIA Bonaparte. 
Texas Cardinal. Conspicuously crested, and other-~ 
wise like the common cardinal in form, but the bill 
extremely short and swollen. 2 ashy-brown, paler 
below; the crest, face, throat, breast and middle line 
of the belly, with the wings and tail, more or less per- 
fectly crimson or carmine red; bill whitish. ¢ similar, 
rather brownish-yellow below, with traces of the red on the breast and belly. 
Fic. 95. Texas Cardinal. 
