448 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



browner. Length 4.75-5.75, wing 2.60-2.80, tail 2)20-2.50. 

 Eggs .73 X -53, similar in color to those of P. amaena (some- 

 times pure white). Hob. Eastern United States and more 

 southern British Provinces, west to edge of Great Plains ; 

 south, in winter, to Veragua. 



598. P. cyanea (LiNN.). Indigo Bunting. 



e 2 . Culmen strongly curved ; cutting-edge of upper mandible dis- 

 tinctly concave. Adult male: Forehead, superciliary region, 

 lesser wing-coverts, and rump lavender-blue or purplish ; 

 crown and occiput wine-red, varying to vermilion ; back 

 and scapulars maroon-purplish; sides of head and neck, 

 and lower parts, generally plum-purplish, changing to au- 

 ricula-purple or maroon on chest, the throat usually more 

 reddish ; lores black. Adult female : Above plain brown- 

 ish ; beneath entirely isabella-color, or dull grayish buff. 

 f l . Eather larger, or with longer wing and tail ; adult male 

 with red on occiput duller, purple of throat more 

 reddish (sometimes decidedly red), flanks duller and 

 grayer, and rump bluer ; length about 5.50, wing 

 (male) 2.65-2.80 (2.71), tail 2.30-2.50 (2.39). Eggs .78 

 X -58, plain dull bluish white. Hab. Eastern Mexico, 

 north to lower Rio Grande Yalley in Texas, south to 

 Puebla.. 600. P. versicolor (BONAP.). Varied Bunting. 

 /*. Eather smaller, or with shorter wing and, tail ; adult 

 male with red on occiput brighter, purple of throat 

 less reddish (never decidedly red?), flanks brighter 

 plum-purple, and rump more purplish blue, or laven- 

 der; length about 5.50, wing (male) 2.50-2.65 (2.53), 

 tail 2.05-2.30 (2.18). Hab. Lower California and west- 

 ern Mexico (vicinity of Mazatlan).. . P. versicolor 

 pulchra EIDGW. Beautiful Bunting. 1 

 c 2 . Belly red or yellow. 



d 1 . Tail purplish brown (male) or green (female). Adult male : Head 

 and neck purplish smalt-blue ; eyelids, and entire lower parts, 

 including chin and throat, vermilion-red ; back and scapulars 

 yellowish green ; rump dull purplish red. Adult female and 

 young male: Above plain olive-green, including tail; beneath 

 dull olive yellowish. Young : Above dull olive, the wing-cov- 

 erts indistinctly tipped with paler ; beneath dull pale grayish 

 buffy, the breast and sides very indistinctly clouded with gray- 

 ish brown. Length 4.25-5.50, wing about 2.60-2.80, tail 2.45- 

 2.60. Eggs .77 X -57, bluish white, speckled, chiefly on or round 

 larger end, with reddish brown. Hab. Southern Atlantic and 



1 New subspecies; type, No. 87540, U. S. Nat. Mus. Miraflores, Lower California, April 4, 1882 ; L. Belding. 



