290 AYES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 



spicuous; 9 ashy brown, more or less washed with red. L. 8^. 

 AV. 4. T. \\. E. U. S, southerly, N. to Mass. and N. Wis.; 

 abundant. A brilliant songster, much sought as a cage bird. (Lat., 

 from color of cardinal's hat.) 



492. HABIA Reichenbach. (A South American name.) 



932. H. ludoviciana (L.). Rose-breasted Grosbeak. $ 

 with head, neck and upper parts mostly black, with white on rump, 

 wings and tail ; belly white ; breast and under wing coverts of an 

 exquisite rose-red; bill very stout, pale; 9 olive brown, much 

 streaked, with the under wing coverts saffron yellow ; head with 

 whitish stripes. L. 8£. AV. 4. T. 3L E. N. Am., abundant ; 

 perhaps our handsomest bird, and one of the most brilliant song- 

 sters. (Lat., Louisianian.) 



493. GUIRACA Swainson. (S. Am. name.) 



9.33. G. ccerulea (L.). Blue Grosbeak. $ rich blue ; 

 feathers about bill, wings and tail, black ; wing bars chestnut ; 9 

 yellowish brown, with whitish wing bars. L. 7. W. 3^. T. 2|. 

 Southern, N. to N. Y. and Wis., rare ; a fine songster. 



494. PASSERINA Vieillot. (From passer.) 



934. P. cyanea (L.). Indigo Bird. £ indigo blue, clear on 

 head, greenish behind : 9 plain warm brown, obscurely streaky, 

 known from other small sparrows by a dusky line along the gonys. 

 L. 5|. AV. 3. T. 2|. E. U. S., abundant in summer ; a tirebss 

 songster. (Lat., blue.) 



935. P. ciris (L.). Nonpareil. Painted Bunting. $ head 

 and neck blue ; under parts, etc., vermilion ; shoulders, etc., green ; 

 rump and tail purplish-brown ; 9 green, yellowish below. L. b\. 

 W. 2§. T. 2\. Southern, N. to S. 111. {Nelson.) ( K elpis, name 

 of some bird.) 



495. SPIZA Bonaparte. (<nrl{a, old name of some sparrow.) 



936. S. americana (Gmelin). Black-throated Bunting. 

 " Dick sissel." Grayish and streaked above ; wing coverts chest- 

 nut ; line over eye, maxillary stripe, edge of wing, breast and part 

 of belly yellow ; throat patch black ; otherwise white below ; 9 

 with little chestnut, and the black reduced to dark streaks. L. 6f. 

 A\'. Z\. T. 2|. Fields, Conn, to Kansas, chiefly AV. ; a handsome 

 bird with sleek plumage, and a peculiar, but scarcely musical song, 

 incessantly repeated in hot weather. 



937. S. townsendi (Audubon). Upper parts, head, neck, etc., 

 slaty blue ; no chestnut, and little yellow or black. A single speci- 

 men known from Penn., perhaps a hybrid. (To. J. K. Townsend.) 



