SPOROPHILA. 449 
Gulf States, north to North Carolina and southern Illinois; 
south, in winter, through eastern Mexico and Central America 
to Panama................ 601. P. ciris (Linn.). Painted Bunting. 
@. Tail blue (duller in female). Adult male: Top of head bright yel- 
lowish green; rest of upper parts turquoise-blue, the back 
tinged with green; lores, eyelids, and lower parts gamboge- 
yellow, deepening into orange on chest. Adult female: Above 
grayish olive, tinged with green (especially on head), changing 
to dull grayish blue on upper tail-coverts and tail ; lores, eye- 
lids, and lower parts dull light-yellowish ; tinged with olive on 
chest and sides. Length about 4.50-5.00, wing 2.45-2.75, tail 
2.00-2.40. Hab. Southwestern Mexico (Puebla and Tehuante- 
pec to Colima). 
P. leclancheri Larr. Leclancher’s Bunting.? 
b?, Exposed culmen more than .45; depth of bill at base less than length of 
bill from nostril. 
Adult male: Rich cobalt-blue, more purplish on top of head, and 
changing gradually to fine cerulean-blue on posterior upper parts ; 
eyelids white; lores blackish; feathers of chest, breast, and upper 
belly bright vermilion or scarlet immediately beneath the surface; 
lower belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts uniform delicate flesh- 
pink. Adult female: Above dull brown, changing to dull light 
grayish blue on rump, upper tail-coverts,'and tail; lower parts 
light tawny brown, changing to pinkish buff on belly and lower 
tail-coverts. Length 5.25-5.55, wing 2.70-2.85, tail 2.20-2.30. Hab. 
Southern Mexico (Tehuantepec). 
P, rosite (Lawr.). Rosita’s Bunting? 
Genus SPOROPHILA Casanis. (Page 386, pl. CX., fig. 7.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Adult males varied with black and white, or pale cinna- 
mon, or grayish (or all), the under wing-coverts and axillars, and spot at base of 
quills (sometimes concealed by primary coverts), always white. Adult females plain 
brownish above, the wing with or without whitish bands ; lower parts plain olive 
or dull buffy. 
a', Middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with white, forming two more or less 
distinct bands across wing. 
Adult male: Top and sides of head, back, scapulars, wings, upper tail-cov- 
erts, tail, and band across chest, black; rump brownish, or brownish 
gray ; spot on lower eyelid, chin, throat, broad collar round neck (some- 
1 Passerina leclanchert LAFR., Mag. Zool. 1841, Ois. pl. 22. 
2 Cyanospiza rosite Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. Feb. 1874, 397. 
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