J^2 NORTH AMERICAN r.TltDS. 



yellow hclow. Ilnh. OiiH' StatL's of United Status, ami whole of Middle 



America. 



5. C. leclancheri.' Lower parts pambofrc-yellow. rSaek liliie, erown 



green, riiiii|) Ijliii-; eyelids yellow. Female not seen. Hah. Sontlioin 



Mexico. 



Cyanospiza cyanea, Uaird. 



INDIOO BIBD. 



Tiuuiijnt ciffinca, l.tss. Syst. Nat. I, 17ti's ai.'>. Emberiza viinnai, CIm. Syst. Nat. I, 

 17SS, S7(>. Fi-iiiijilht ciidiini, Wilson, I, 1810, 100, 111. vi, f. 5. — Ari). Orn. liiog. 

 I, 1832, 377 ; V, 50;!, pi. l.\.\iv. I'ttuscviaa eijuncii, Vikili.. Diet. Spha ajtinai, I!o\. 

 Li.st, 18;i8. — In. Coiisi). 1850, 474. — AUD. Syn. 1839, 100. — lli. iiinls Am. Ill, 

 1841, l)(), 111. cl.\.\. Cijunuspiza ajtiimi, liAlUD, Biids N. Am. 1858, 505. — Samuixs, 

 330. 1 Emhcrha cijiniclld, G.M. I, 1788, 887. / Embcrhu acruica, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 

 1788, 870. Imlicjo liiniliiiij, and Blue DuntiiKj, Pknnaxt and Latham. 



Sr. ("iiAii. Mali: IJlue, tini^ed with ullraniarine on the head, thioat, and middle of 

 breast; elsewhere with verdiijris-trreen. Lores and anterior any:le of chin velvet-hlaclc. 

 Winft-featheis liiown, edi;od e.\ternally with dull hluisli-lirown. Female. Brown above; 

 whitish, obscurely streaked or blotched with browiiish-ycllcnv. beneath; tinf,'cd with blue 

 on shoulders, edi,a's of larger feathers, and on rump. Innnature nudes similar, variou.sly 

 blotched with blue. Very yoinii: birds streaked beneath. Length, about 5.7") inches; 

 wing, nearly 3.00. 



IIab. Kastern I'liifed States to the Missouri ; south to (iuateinala. t);'.\aca (.ScL. ISoO, 

 ;{7f)); Cordova (f^a.. IS.VI. ;!04); Guatemala (Set,. Ibis. I, 17); Cuba (Caii. J. IV. S), 

 Costa Ilica (^Cad. Jol'K. 1801, 4 ; Lawu. IX, 103) : Vera Cruz, winter (Su.m. M. B. S. I, u.j'2). 



In this spi'iMcs, which luiiv liu considered tiie typo of tho i,'enn.s, the tail is 

 sliglitly emarginiite ; the second (piill is longest, tiie tifst shorter than the 

 i'otirtli. 



H.VBITS. The common Indioo IJjrd of the Kixstern States is fonnd in 

 nearly nniibrm and tolerable ahtiiuhmcc in various jiarts of the United 

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

 New IJriinswick. It is a summer visittiiit, but rare, in Eastern ]\raine, but is 

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

 where it breeds. ]Mr. Allen speaks of it its not very common in tiie vicinity 

 of .S[niiigli(dd, Mass., arriving there about the middle of ^lay, and breeding 

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

 It leaves there about the middh,' of Sejitemlier. 



In the eiistern ])art of tjie State it is very uiieipially distributed. In cer- 

 tain localities it Inis not been met with, liut in other favorite places it .seems 

 to be ([uite common, and to lie on the increase. In the gardens of Brooklinc 

 and lioxbtiry they are comparatively (piite abundant. Mr. Maynard gives 

 May 10 as the earliest date of their ctiining. He tilstt states Ihiit in the 

 auttimn they are found in ilncks, and freijuent roadsides, high .sandy fields, 



' C'iiiiiiiis/)ha Ici-landicri. .S/iha leclancheri, Laki:. Mag. Zoi)l. 1841, |il. .X-xii. — Lliss. It. Z. 

 1842, 74. 



