■J90 AVES : PASSERBS. ■ — 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.). Robe-breasted Grosbeak. <J 

 with head, neck and upper parts mostly black, with white on rump, 

 wings and tail ; belly white ; breast and under wing coverts of an 

 e.xquisite 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. 3^. E. N". Am., abundant ; 

 perhaps our handsomest bird, and one of the most brilliant song- 

 sters. (Lat., Louisianian.) 



493. G-UIRACA Swainson. (S. Am. name.) 



933. G. ccErulea (L.). Blue Grosbeak. ^ rich blue ; 

 feathers about bill, wings and tail, black ; wing bars chestnut ; 9 

 yellowish brown, with whitish wing bars. L. 7. W. 3^. T. 2|. 

 Southern, N. to N. Y. and Wis., rare ; a fine songster. 



494. CYANOSPIZA Baird. (Gr., blue sparrow.) 



934. C. cyanea (L.) Indigo Bird. $ 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. 5 J. W. 3. T. 2f. E. U. S., abundant in summer; a tireless 

 songster. (Lat., blue.) 



935. C. ciris (L.). Nonpareil. Painted Bunting. $ head 

 and neck blue ; under parts, etc., vermilion ; shoulders, etc., green ; 

 rump and tail purplish-brown ; 9 greun, yellowish below. L. 5^. 

 W. 2f. T. 2f Southern, N. to S. III. (Nelson.) (Kilpis, name 

 of some bird.) 



495. SPIZA Bonaparte, (o-n-ifo, old name of some sparrow.),- 



936. S. americana (Gmelin). Black-throated Bunting. 

 " Dick sissel." Grayish and streaked above ; wing coverts chest- 

 nut; Ime over eye, maxillary stripe, edge of wing, breast and part, 

 of belly yellow ; throat patch black ; otherwise white below ; 9 

 with little chestnut, and the black reduced to dark streaks. L. 6 j. 

 W. 3f T. 2|. 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. townserrdi (^lidubon). Upper parts, head, neck, etc., 

 slaty blue ; no chestnut, and little yellow or black. A single speci- 

 men known from Penn., perhaps a hybrid (not a valid species). 



