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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
browner. Length 4.75-5.75, wing 2.60-2.80, tail 2.20-2.50. 
Eggs .73 X .53, similar in color to those of P. amena (some- 
times pure white). Hab. Eastern United States and more 
southern British Provinces, west to edge of Great Plains; 
south, in winter, to Veragua. 
598. P. cyanea (Linn.). Indigo Bunting. 
e. Culmen strongly curved; cutting-edge of upper mandible dis- 
tinctly concave. Adult male: Forehead, superciliary region, 
lesser wing-coverts, and rump lavender-blue or purplish ; 
crown and occiput wine-red, varying to vermilion; back 
and scapulars maroon-purplish; sides of head and neck, 
and lower parts, generally plum-purplish, changing to au- 
ricula-purple or maroon on chest, the throat usually more 
reddish; lores black. Adult female: Above plain brown- 
ish ; beneath entirely isabella-color, or dull grayish buff. 
fi. Rather larger, or with longer wing and tail; adult male 
with red on occiput duller, purple of throat more 
reddish (sometimes decidedly red), flanks duller and 
grayer, and rump bluer; length about 5.50, wing 
(male) 2.65-2.80 (2.71), tail 2.30-2.50 (2.39). Eggs .78 
xX .58, plain dull bluish white. Hab. Hastern Mexico, 
north to lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, south to 
Puebla.. 600. P. versicolor (Bonar.). Varied Bunting. 
f?. Rather smaller, or with shorter wing and tail; adult 
male with red on occiput brighter, purple of throat 
less reddish (never decidedly red?), flanks brighter 
plum-purple, and rump more purplish blue, or laven- 
der; length about 5.50, wing (male) 2.50-2.65 (2.53), 
tail 2.05-2.30 (2.18). Hab. Lower California and west- 
ern Mexico (vicinity of Mazatlan)..... 600a. P. versi- 
color pulchra Ripew. Beautiful Bunting.’ 
c. Belly red or yellow. 
@, Tail purplish brown (male) or green (female). Adult male: Head 
and neck purplish smalt-blue; eyelids, and entire lower parts, 
including chin and throat, vermilion-red ; back and scapulars 
yellowish green; rump dull purplish red. Adult female and 
young male: Above plain olive-green, including tail; beneath 
dull olive yellowish. Young: Above dull olive, the wing-cov- 
erts indistinctly tipped with paler; beneath dull pale grayish 
buffy, the breast and sides very indistinctly clouded with gray- 
ish brown. Length 4.25-5.50, wing about 2.60-2.80, tail 2.45- 
2.60. Eggs .77 X .57, bluish white, speckled, chiefly on or round 
larger end, with reddish brown. Hab. Southern Atlantic and 
1 New subspecies; type, No. 87540, U.S. Nat, Mus. Miraflores, Lower California, April 4, 1882; L. Belding. 
