PASSERES— FEINGILLIDAE— CYANOSPIZA CIEIS. 



301 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



10S 



125 

 148 



22 



23 

 102 

 lil 

 119 

 59S 

 609 

 623 

 707 

 891 

 134 

 135 

 83 

 S 4 

 572 



575 

 626 



$ ad. 

 $ ad. 

 $ ad. 

 S ad. 



9 ad. 

 9 ad. 

 3 ad. 

 9- ad. 

 9 ad. 



Bull Run, Nev 



do 



May 23, 1871 

 May 25, 1S71 

 do 



Dr. W. L Hoffman 











do 











do 



F. Bischoff 













July 29, 1S72 

 do 



H. \V. Henshaw and 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow. 











do 











do 



July 30, 1S72 

 Aug. I, 1S72 

 do 



.do 











do 



.. do 











do 



do 











do 



Aug. 17, 1S72 



..do 













do 















H W Henshaw » "8 



2.42 



2.21 

 2.4I 

 2.32 

 2. 25 



2.52 



0.3S 

 0.37 

 0.39 

 0.3S 

 0.40 

 0. 40 



0. 65 

 0.63 

 0.67 

 0.65 

 0.66 

 0.63 



9jun. 

 $ ad. 

 9jun. 

 <?jun. 

 2 ad. 

 $ ad. 

 <? ad. 

 9jun. 

 <? ad. 

 <?jun. 

 9 ad. 

 9jun. 



Camp Apache, Ariz 



do 



Aug. 23, 1S73 

 Aug. 24, 1873 

 Aug. 26, 1S73 

 Sept. -, 1S73 

 Oct. 2, 1S73 

 July 14, 1S74 

 . do 



do 



2.46 

 2. S7 

 2.6S 

 2.S5 

 2.S5 



do 



do 



do . . 



do 



San Tedro, Ariz 



Camp Apache, Ariz 



do 



do 



. . do 



do 



. do 













July 31, 1S74 

 rln 



C. E. Aiken 











do 



do 













H. W. Henshaw... 











do 



. do . . . 



. do ----- 









Camp Lowell, Ariz 



Sept. 9, 1874 



do 





















CYANOSPIZA CIEIS (Liun.). 

 Nonpareil. 



Embcriza ciris, Linn., Kpng. Sv. Vet. Akad. Haud., 1750, 278, tab. vii, f. i. 



Spiza ciris, Woodh., Sitgreave's Exp. Zuni & Col. Riv., 1854, 87 (Texas). 



Cyanospiza ciris, Heerm., P. B. E. Rep., Park's Eoute, x, 1859, 14.— Ed., U. S. & Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1850, Birds, 17.— Kennerly, P. E. E. Ecp., 

 Whipple's Eoute, x, 1850, 30 (Sau Antonio, Texas).— Coues, Key, 1872, 140. 



This, one of the most conspicuous among all our birds for the beauty 

 and brilliant colors of its plumage, is quite southern in its distribution ; being 

 known from the Southern States generally, and extending along to the west- 

 ward into Texas, where it is stated to be very numerous. That it also 

 occurs along the southern border of New Mexico is scarcely doubtful, since 

 farther west, in Southeastern Arizona, it was met with in two localities, 

 Camps Bowie and Crittenden. Quite a number of young and one adult 

 male were noted at the former place; while, in the neighborhood of the 



