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parts. The female has the upper parts bright olive-green and 

 the under parts yellowish. This, though the most consjjic- 

 uously colored of our birds, is, on account of its shy and retir- 

 ing habits, seldom 

 seen. Its home is 

 among the densest 

 and most thorny un- 

 dergrowth of the 

 wooded regions. 

 (Nonpareil.) 



Length, 5|; wing, 2 1 

 (2|-2D; tail, 2}; tar- 

 sus, J ; culmen, J. East- 

 ern United States ; breed- 

 Painted Bunting ing from soutliern Illi- 

 nois and North Carolina 

 southward, and wintering south of the United States to Central America. 

 The Varied Bunting ((iOO. Passerina versicolor) of southern Texas to 

 Central America (accidental in Michigan) differs in having no green on 

 the male. The forehead, hind neck, bend of wing, and rninp, blue ; wings 

 and tail glossed with blue ; throat and hind head, dull red ; belly, reddish- 

 purple. The female has brownish back and breast, whitish lower parts, 

 and no whitish wing bars. 



51. Sharp's Seed-eater (602. Spordphila morilleti shdrpei). — 

 A very small, heavy-billed, southern Texas bird, with the upper 

 parts black and the lower parts, including collar around neck, 

 white or buffy. The rump is brownish, and the lower part of 

 the collar is black. The female is plain olive above and olive- 

 buify below, and there are two whitish bars on the wings. 



Length, 4; wing, 2; tail, 2; tarsus, |; culmen, J nearly. Southern 

 Texas and northwestern Mexico. The Grassquit (00-3. Enetheia bicolor) 

 of the West Indies has been seen in southern Florida. It is a very 

 small, stout-billed, olive-green bird with black head and lower parts 

 becoming grayish on the belly. The female is olive-green with grayish 

 head and lower parts. Length, 4 ; wing, 2 ; tail, 1 J. The Melodious 

 Grassquit (603.1. Euetheia cnnora), a similar small bird, also seen once 

 in southern Florida, has a yellow, orescent-shaped band across the lower 

 throat, extending back of the eyes. The chin and upper throat of the 

 female is marked with ohestnut-red. This species belongs to Cuba and 

 has been seen only on one of the Florida Keys. 



