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599. Lazuli Bunting. 
Cyanospiza amena (SAy) BarrD. 1858. 
This species was found in the Bow valley from the foothills at 
Morley up to Banff in the Rocky mountains, but although often 
seen was not common in the summer of 1891; common at Trail on 
the Columbia and at Cascade in low bushes on the hillsides in June 
and July, 1902; three seen at Osoyoos lake, B.C., May 28th, 1905 
and common along the trail from Osoyoos to Princeton; found at 
Kamloops and Spence Bridge, B.C., in abundance in June, 1889; 
two pairs were seen at Agassiz on May 13th, the same year; one 
specimen seen at Chilliwack, B.C., May 23rd, 1901; and one there 
in 1906; shot a female at Comox, Vancouver island, June 23rd, 
1893, the only one seen; one seen at a lake near Victoria, Vancouver 
island, May 15th, 1887. (Spreadborough.) This beautiful bird is 
abundant between the Coast rdnge and the Rockies, but does not 
extend further north than Bonaparte river which is north of Ash- 
croft in British Columbia. (Rhoads.) 
CCXXXVI. SPIZA Bonaparte. 1824. 
604. Dickcissel. 
Spiza americana (GMEL.) RipGw. 1880. 
Since the irruption of this species into eastern and central Ontario 
in 1895, recorded in the Ottawa Naturalist of that year none have 
been observed near London; this species, however, is a steadily 
common breeder in the west, all over the country south of Lake 
St. Clair and becomes less numerous and more southern as one 
comes east; the three nests so far recorded in Ontario were all on 
the ground, though they are often placed higher in the prairie states; 
the four or five blue eggs have a striking resemblance to those of the 
bluebird. (W. E. Saunders.) Mr. Saunders writes that since the 
publication of the first edition of this catalogue this species has 
apparently vanished from western Ontario and that no positive 
information of its occurrence has been received in recent years 
though the customary localities have been investigated. (Zacoun.) 
On June 14th, 1897, while doing some miscellaneous collecting near 
the big slough at Portage la Prairie, Man., a strange bird flushed 
