EUPHONIA. 453 
Great Plains, breeding from middle Kansas northward to or beyond the United 
States boundary, migrating south and southwest, in winter, to Texas, New Mexico, 
Arizona, Lower California, and northern Mexico; occasional west of Rocky Moun- 
tains (Utah, etc.), and accidental in Massachusetts. 
605. C. melanocorys Sresn, Lark Bunting. 
Famity TANAGRIDAZ.—Tue Tanacers. (Page 321.) 
Genera. 
a’. Wing less than 3.00, tail less than 2.00; bill very short and broad at base, the 
exposed culmen less than half as long as tarsus, and less than the width of 
the bill at base; tail less than half as long as wing. 
Euphonia. (Page 453.) 
a’. Wing more than 3.00, tail more than 2.50; bill moderately lengthened, not 
broader than deep at base, the exposed culmen nearly or quite as long as the 
tarsus, and much greater than width of bill at base; tail more than half as 
LON GSS WAND ys ccdesssienscsccsctenneseeeseaeuaseevee denceseede’s Piranga. (Page 453.) 
Genus EUPHONIA Desmargst. (Page 453, pl. CXIIL,, fig. 5.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Top of head and hind-neck uniform light blue; forehead dark 
rusty or chestnut, margined behind by black; rest of head and neck, with upper 
parts generally, uniform glossy blue-black, inclining to purplish steel-blue; lower 
parts (except chin and throat) plain orange-rufous. Adult female: Top of head 
colored as in the male; upper parts olive-green, lower parts, including chin and 
throat, paler and more yellowish olive-green. Length about 4.70, wing 2.75, tail 
1.80. Hggs “creamy white, with a few scattered spots and blotches, principally at 
the larger end, of two shades of brown.” (Sciater.) Hab. Mexico and Central 
America, south to Veragua; north to Chihuahua (and southern Texas ?). 
606. E. elegantissima (Bonap.). Blue-headed Euphonia. 
(76.) Genus PIRANGA Vietttor. (Page 453, pl. CXIIL., fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Common CHARACTERS.—Adult males with more or less of red in the plumage, 
often chiefly or entirely red. Adult females, in most species, olive-greenish above, 
yellowish beneath. Young (in nestling plumage) with lower parts distinctly streaked 
with grayish or dusky on a whitish or yellowish ground. Vest on trees, usually on 
lower horizontal branch, saucer-shaped, thin, constructed of wiry dead grass-stems, 
etc. Eggs 3-5, pale bluish or greenish, spotted or speckled with brown. 
a}, Wings plain-colored, without lighter bands or other markings. 
bY, Wing decidedly more than 3.25; adult males with lower parts entirely red. 
c'. Cutting-edge of upper mandible without angle or tooth-like projection 
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