BIRDS— FEINGlLLIDAE — CYANOSPIZA CYANEA. 



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List of specimens. 



CYANOSPIZA CYANEA, Baird. 



Indigo Bird. 



Tanagracyanea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 176G, 315. 



Emberiza cyanea, Gm. Syst, Nat. I, 1788, 876. 



FHngilla cyanea, Wilbon, I, 1810, 100 ; pi. vi, f. 5.— Ann. Orn. Biog, I, 1832, 377 : V, 503 ; pi. 74. 



Passerina cyanea , Vieill. Diet. 



Spiza cyanea, Bon. List, 1838.— Is. Consp. 1850, 474,— Aud. Syn. 1839, 109.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 184J, 96 ; pi. 



170. 

 'Emberiza cyanella, Gm. I, 1788, 887. 

 ? Emberiza caerulea, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 876. 

 Indigo bunting, and Blue bunting, Pennant and Latham. 



Sp. Oh, — Male. Blue, tinged with ultramarine on tlie head, throat, and middle of breast; elsewhere with verdigris green. 

 Lores and anterior angle of chin velvet black. Wing feathers brown, edged externally with dull bluish brown. 



Female. Brown above ; whitish, obscurely streaked or blotched with brownish yellow, beneath. Immature males similar, 

 variously blotched with blue. 



Length, about 5,75 inches ; wing, nearly 3.00. 



Hob. — Eastern United States to the Missouri ; south to Guatemala. 



In this species, wliicli may be considered the type of the genus, the tail is slightly emarginate ; 

 the second quill is longest, the first shorter than the fourth. 



One specimen before me has the primary quills white. This is, however, merely an indication 

 of albinism. 



Jnne 19, 1858. 



64 b 



