MINUTE SEEDEATER 



FIG. 93. Oryzoborus funereus 



(Nat. Size) 



deeply colored in autumn and winter. Bill like 

 that of male. 



Immature male. Similar to female. 



Not uncommon. Noted in a swamp near Fort 

 Randolph. Fort Lorenzo. "Associates with 

 Sporophila aurita." (Jewel.) "Gatun." (Halli- 

 nan.) Richmond says its song "is very like 

 that of the Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) 

 but is not nearly so loud and clear. At times 

 ... it seeks a perch in the top of a tree from 

 which to deliver its song." 



4. Sporophila minuta centralis 

 Bangs and Penard 

 Minute Seedeater 



Sporophila minuta minuta RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and 

 M. Amer., I, p. 567, 1901; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 275. 



Length, about 97 mm. (3.85 in.); tail, about 

 40 mm. (1.55 in.). 



Male. Above, excepting rump, olive, olive 

 gray or brownish olive; rump and cheeks and 

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