290 AVES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 
spicuous; 9 ashy brown, more or less washed with red. L. 8}. 
W.4, T. 4}. E. U. S., southerly, N. to Mass. and N. Wis.; 
abundant. A brilliant songster, much sought as a cage bird. (Lat., 
from color of cardinal’s hat.) 
492. HEDYMELES Cabanis. (Zamelodia Coues.) 
932. H. ludoviciana (L.). Rosr-BREAsSTED GROSBEAK. ¢ 
with head, neck and upper parts mostly black, with white on rump, 
wings and tail; belly white; breast and under wing coverts of an 
exquisite rose-red; bill very stout, pale; 9 olive brown, much 
streaked, with the under wing coverts saffron yellow; head with 
whitish stripes. L.8}. W.4. T. 34. E. N. Am., abundant; 
perhaps our handsomest bird, and one of the most brilliant song- 
sters. (Lat., Louisianian.) 
493. GUIRACA Swainson. (S. Am. name.) 
933. G. coerulea (L.). Buiur Grospeax. ¢ rich blue; 
feathers about bill, wings and tail, black; wing bars chestnut; ? 
yellowish brown, with whitish wing bars. L.7. W. 3}. T. 23. 
Southern, N. to N. Y. and Wis., rare; a fine songster. 
494. CYANOSPIZA Baird. (Gr., blue sparrow.) 
934, C, cyanea (L.) Inpico Birp. ¢ indigo blue, clear on 
head, greenish behind; 9 plain warm brown, obscurely streaky, 
known from other small sparrows by a dusky line along the gonys. 
L. 53. W.3. T. 23. E. U.S., abundant in summer; a tireless 
songster. (Lat., blue.) 
935. C. ciris (L.). Nonpareiry. Parnrep Buntine. ¢ head 
and neck blue; under parts, etc., vermilion ; shoulders, etc., green ; 
rump and tail purplish-brown; 9 green, yellowish below. L. 5}. 
W. 23%. T. 2}. Southern, N. to S. Il. (Welson.) Kastan name 
of some bird.) 
495. SPIZA Bonaparte. (ozi{a, old name of some sparrow.) 
936. S. americana (Gmelin). BLack-rHRoaTED Buntine. 
“Dick sIssEL.” Grayish and streaked above; wing coverts chest- 
nut; line over eye, maxillary stripe, edge of win’ g, breast and part 
of belly yellow; throat patch black ; benrie white below; 9 
with little chestnut, and the black adubed to dark streaks. L. 64. 
W. 34. T. 28. Fields, Conn. to Kansas, chiefly W.; a handsome 
bird with sleek plumage, and a peculiar, but scarcely musical song, 
incessantly repeated in hot weather. 
937. S. townsendi (Audubon). Upper parts, head, neck, ete., 
slaty blue; no chestnut, and little yellow or black. A single speci- 
men known from Penn., perhaps a hybrid (not a valid species). 
