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

 W. 4. T. 4^. 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. HEDYMELES Cabanis. (Zamelodia Coues.) 



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. 8J. W. 4. T. 3 J. E. N. Am., abundant ; 

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

 sters. (Lat., Louisianian.) 



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



933. G. coerulea (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. 2f . 

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



494. CYANOSFIZA Baird. (Gr., blue sparrow.) 



934. C. 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. 5f. W. 3. T. 2|. E. U. S., abundant in summer ; a tireless 

 songster. (Lat., blue.) 



935. C. 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. 5^. 

 W. 2f . T. 2. Southern, N. to S. IU. (Nelson.") (nelpis, name 

 of some bird.) 



495. SPIZA Bonaparte. (oTn'&z, 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. 6|. 

 W. 3J. T. 2f . Fields, Conn, to Kansas, chiefly W. ; 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 (not a valid species). 



