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U. S. p. E, R. EXF. AND SUEVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT, 



List of specimens. 



Locality. 



Southern States - - . 

 SavaT]nah, Ga-.... 



Liberty county, Ga. 



do , 



do , 



do 



do , 



do 



Calcasieu, La 



San Antonio, Tex.. 

 do 



San Antonio, Tex. 

 do 



Texas 



.do. 



River Pecos.... 

 San Pedro, Tex . 



San Elizario, Tex- 



Monterey, Mex 



When collected 



1845 



1845 



1846 



1846 



1846 



1846 



1846 



1846 



1846 



Spring of 1854 



July — , 1853 

 do 



May 25, 1855 



May 



May — , 1853 



Whence obtained. 



S. F. Baird . 

 do.... 



.do. 

 -do. 



-do. 



-do. 

 -do. 



.do. 



-do. 



-do. 



O. Wurdemanu . 

 Lt. J. G. Parke. 

 Col. Graham 



-do. 



Lt. Whipple . 



, do 



Capt. Pope... 

 do 



do 



Col. Graham. 

 , do 



Maj. Emory. 

 Lt. Couch . . 



Orig. 



No. 



10 

 14 



17 



94 

 20 



204 



Collected by — 



Jos. Leconte. 



, do 



W. L. Jones. 

 do 



do 



Jos. Leconte . 

 W. L Jones . 

 Jos. Leconte . 

 do 



Dr. Heermaun . 



J. H. Clark... 

 do 



Dr. Kennerly . 

 do 



J. H. Clark. 



do 



do 



Length. 



6.40 

 5.30 

 5.62 

 5.50 

 5.60 

 5.25 

 5.50 



5.25 

 5.50 



6.25 

 2.50 



5.87 

 4.75 



Stretch 

 of wings. 



8.00 

 8.50 

 8.30 

 8.75 

 8.50 

 8.37 

 8.60 



9.00 

 8.25 



9.00 

 6.00 



.50 

 .00 



Wing. 



2.80 

 2.80 

 2.70 

 2.75 

 2.30 

 2.75 

 2.80 



3.00 

 2.25 



2.50 

 8.50 



2.12 

 2.50 



CYANOSPIZ A AMOENA, .Baird. 



Lazuli. Finch. 



Emheriza amoena, Sat, Long's Exped. II, 1823, 47. 



FHngilla {Spiza) amoena, Bonap. Am. Orn. I, 1825, 61 ; pi. vi, f. 5. 



Fringilla amoena, Aun. Orn. Biog. V, 1839, 64, 230 ; pis. 398 and 424. 



S'piza amoena, Bonap. List, 1838.— Ann. Syn. 1839, 109.— Ib. Birds Am. Ill, 1841, 100 ; pi. 171. 



Sp. Ch. — Male. Upper parts generally, with the head and neck all round, greenish blue ; the interscapular region darker. 

 Upper part of breast pale brownish chestnut, separated from the blue of the throat by a faint while crescent ; rest of under 

 parts white . A white patch on the middle wing coverts, and an obscurely indicated white band across the ends of the greater 

 coverts. Loral region black. Lenglh, about 5.50; wing, 3.90; tail, 2.60. 



Female . Brown above ; whitish beneath, with a trace of a buff pectoral band . 



Hal). — High Central Plains to the Pacific. 



This species is about the size of 0. cyanea ; the bill exactly similar. The females of the two 

 species are scarcely distinguishable, except by the faint traces of one or two white bands on the 

 wings in amoena. Sometimes both the throat and upper part of the breast are tinged with 

 pale brownish buff. 



