^2 NORTH AMERICAN lUItDi^. 



yellow below, flah. GuW .States of United States, and whole of Middle 



Aincriea. 



r>. C. leclancheri/ Lower parts aanibofre-yellow. Buek Miie, crown 



preen, nunp bhu-; eyelids yellow. Female not seen. Hub. Southern 



Mexico. 



Cyanospiza cyanea, iuird. 



IKDIOO BIBD. 



Tanagra ajnnca, Lrvx. Syst. Nat. I, 17<)»', 315. Enweriza qtnma, Om. Syst. Xat. 1, 

 17SS, bl<6. FruKjillu ojaiifd, Wilson, I, 1810, 100, i)l. vi, f. 5. — Aru. Orn. IJiog. 

 I. 1832, 377 ; V, 503, pi. l.xxiv. Pasacrina cijanea , Vikill. Diet. Spiia cyanat. Box. 

 Li>t, LS3S. — In. Coiisp. 1850, 474. — Aud. Syn. 1S30, 109. — In. IJirds Am. Ill, 

 1^41, l»o, 1)1. elx.x. Ciictiwipiz'i cijainn, li.viRD, Birds N, Am. 1858, 505. — Sami'ELs, 

 330. fEinknzd cydncllny G.M. I, 1788, 887. f EtnlMi'iza acruka, Um. Syst. Nat. I, 

 1788, 87(j. Iiuli'jo Buatinij, and Blue Buntiaj, Pennant aud Latham. 



Sp. Cffah. Mah. Blue, tintred with ultraniarino on the head, throat, and middle of 

 breast; elsewhere with verdi<;ris-<xreen. Lores and anterior angle of chin velvet -black. 

 Wing-feathers brown, cuged e.xternally with dull bluish-brown. Female. Brown above; 

 whitish, obscurely streaked or blotched with brownish-yellow, beneath: tinged with blue 

 on shouldeis, edges of larger feathers, and on rump. Innnature males similar, variously 

 blotched with blue. Very vounir birds streaked beneath. Length, about r).7') inches; 

 wing, nearly 3.00. 



Had. Eastern United States to the Missouri ; south to (ruateniala. Oi-xaca (Scl. ISijO, 

 370); Cordova (Scl. ISoG, 304); Guatemala (Scl. Ibis. L 17): Cul)a (Cab. J. IV. 8); 

 Costa Rica (Cad. Jolr. 18G1, -4 ; Lawk. IX, 103) ; Vera Ciuz, winter (Sum. M. B. S. I, 5.V2). 



In tills species, which iiuiy i)e considered the typo of the uenns, the tail is 

 sliglitly enuirginute ; the second quill is longest, the lirst shorter than the 

 fointli. 



Habits. The common Indigo liird of the Eastern States is found in 

 nearly uniform and tolerable al)undance in various parts of the United 

 States, from tiie valley of the Missouri to the Atlantic, and from Florida to 

 Xew liriniswick. It is a summer visitant, but rare, in P^astern Maine, but is 

 common in the western part of the State, where it arrives early in May, and 

 where it breeds. Mr. Allen s])eaks of it as not very common in the vicinity 

 of Springli(dd, ^lass., arriving there about the middle of ^lay, and breeding 

 in gardens, orchards, and the edges of woods, and making its nests in bushes. 

 Tt leaves there about the middle of Se])tember. 



In the eastern ])art of the State it is very uneipially distributed. In cer- 

 tain hicalities it has not been met with, but in other favorite places it seems 

 t ) be ([uite common, and to be on the increase. In the gardens of Brookline 

 and Iioxburv they are comparatively ([uite abundant. Mr. Maynard gives 

 May 10 as the earliest date of their coming. He also states that in the 

 autumn they are found in Hocks, and freipient roadsides, high sandy fields, 



^ f^>ianosj,.'(i Icclanclicri. Sj-ha IccIancJieri, Lafu. Mag. Zool. 1841. j»l. xxii. — Le.ss. R. Z. 

 1842, 74. 



