PASSERES : Perching Birds 



ARIZONA PYRRHULOXIA 



(594. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata sinuata) 8f in. 



Bill short, almost parrot-like; tall, thin, red crest. 



Male: Gray; throat, face, and middle-breast rosy red, the 

 last gray-mixed; wings (closed) and tail dull red. 



Female: Gray above; buffy below, deepest on fore-breast; 

 crest red-tipped, and red of wing and tail very dull. 



BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK 



(596. Hedymeles melanocephalus) 7| in. 



Male: Head black; back, black and cinnamon-mixed; wings 

 black, white-barred; cinnamon collar, spreading to whole under 

 parts except a median breast-stripe of orange. 



Female: Dusky and whitish-streaked above; buffy below, 

 with dusky shaft-lines. 



Call-note: A metallic "chink." Song: A full, rich warble, 

 hurriedly delivered. 



Feeds extensively on black olive scale, where that pest occurs 

 within its range. 



WESTERN BLUE GROSBEAK 



(597a. Guiraca caerulea lazula) 7| in. 



Male: Rich blue, duller on back, with variable rusty edging 

 of upper parts generally; wings dusky, with chestnut shoulder- 

 patch. 



Female: Gray-brown above; buffy or light brown below; buffy 

 wing-bars. Totally different from the splendid male. 



Immature: The year-old male resembles female, but patched 

 with blue on fore parts. 



A pleasing singer. 



LAZULI BUNTING 



(599. Passerina amcena) 5| in. 



Male: Head, neck, and rump turquoise-blue, back darker and 

 duller; breast rich cinnamon; belly white; two white wing-bars. 



Female: Brownish gray above, faintly bluish on rump; pale 

 tawny below, whitening on belly. 



Call-note: A sharp "quit." Song: A rapidly uttered musical 

 "jingle." 



