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Yomig. — Similar to adult female, but averaging rather browner, 

 especially on under parts, the back sometimes (especially in first 

 plumage) obsoletely streaked. (Immature males in second, and prob- 

 ably third, years are variously intermediate in coloration between 

 fully adult males and females.) 



Eastern United States and British Provinces; north to Maine, 

 Ontario, Minnesota, etc. (casually to New Brunswick); south in win- 

 ter to Bahamas, Cuba, and through eastern Mexico and Central 

 America to Vei'agua; west to eastern border of Great Plains, casually 

 to eastern Colorado (El Paso and Boulder counties). 



\_Tanagra\ cyanea Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 315. 



{Emheriza} cyanea Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 876. 



Fringilla cyanea Wilson, Am. Orn., i, 1810, 100, pi. 6, fig. 5. — Bonaparte, Am. 

 Ora., ii, 1828, 91, pi. 15, fig. 4.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 377; v, 1839, 

 503, pi. 74, — Jaedine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 100. — Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 473. — W;llis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, 

 for 1858 (1859), 283 (Nova Scotia, accidental). 



Passerina cyanea Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 7. — Lembeye, 

 Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 130.— Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 

 96; Check List, 2d ed., 1882,no. 295.— Ridgway, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 

 248; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 495 (Volcan de Irazrt, Costa Rica); viii, 

 1885, 568 (Cozumel I., Yucatan).— Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 91 

 (Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, summer). — Chamberlain, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 105 (near St. Johns, New Brunswick, 1 spec, 

 June); Bull, i, Nat. Hist. Soc. N. B., 1882, 41 (St. Johns).— Bicknell, Auk, 

 11, 1885, 151 (song) . — Ageesborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 289 (s. e. .South Dakota, 

 breeding). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 598.— 

 Feeeaei-Peeez, Proc. U. S. Nat. :\Ius., ix, 1886, 142 (Chietla, Puebla, Dec.) .— 

 CoEY, Auk, iii, 1886, 211;. Birds AV. I., 1889, 98; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 112 

 (New Providence and San Salvador, Bahamas; Cuba). — Zeledon, An. 3Ius. 

 Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Santa Maria de Dota, El Zarcero de Alajuela, and 

 Pacuare, Costa Rica).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 218 (Elk R., Min- 

 nesota; Tom Green Co., w. Texas, fall, etc.); Birds Colorado, 1897, 109 (El 

 Paso and Boulder counties, 2 specs.). — Cheeeie, Auk, vii, 1890, 334 (San 

 Jos6, Costa Rica, May); ix, 1892, 247 (San Jos6, etc., Oct., Nov.); Expl. 

 Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 29 (Lagarto and Buenos A.ires, s. Costa Rica). — 

 Atkinson, Trans. Canad. Inst., iii, 1892, 47 (breeding near Toronto, Onta- 

 rio).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 309 (near Trinidad, Cuba, 

 1 spec. Mar. 18).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 493 (Rio 

 Escondido, Nicaragua, Sept., Oct.). — Neheling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 

 1896, 214, pi. 28, figs. 1, 2.— Knight, Bull. Univ. Maine, no. 3, 1897, 103 

 (summer resid. whole State). 



[Passerina,} cyanea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 97, no. 7435.— Coey, List Birds 

 W. I., 1885, 12. 



P.^asserina} cyanea Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 391.— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 448. 



Spiza cyanea Jaedine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., iii, 1832, 446.— Bonapaete, Geog. 

 and Comp. List, 1838, 35.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 109; Birds Am., oct. 

 ed., iii, 1841, 96, pi. 170.— Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and 

 Col. R., 1853, 87 (Indian Territory).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1856, 304 (Cordova, Vera Cruz). —Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 8 (Cuba).—. 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307 (Cuba). 



