584 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



S. [piza] cyanea Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 375. 



[Spiza] cyanea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 474. 



(Sp. [iza] cyanea Cabanis, Mug. Hein., i, 1851, 148. 



Cya.nospiza cyanea Baibd, Rep. Pacific B. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 505; Cat. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 387.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 379 (Playa 

 Vicente, Oaxaca); 1864, 174 (valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 107 

 (Mexico; Coban, Guatemala). — Scl.ater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 18 (Duenas, 

 Guatemala, winter); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Hondu- 

 ras). — Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 151 (Oxford Co., Maine, breed- 

 ing). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 180 (Greytown, Nicaragua); 

 ix, 1868, 103 (Barranca, San Jos6, and Dota, Costa Rica) ; ix, 1869, 201 

 (Merida, Yucatan); Ball. U. S. Nat. Mua.,no. 4, 1876, 20 (Santa Efigenia, 

 Oaxaca, Dec). — Gumdlach, Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 285; Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1874, 125 (Cuba).— Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 128 (Florida).— Duges, La 

 Naturaleza, i, 1868, 140 (Guanajuato) . — Sumicbrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 i, 1869, 552 (Vera Cruz, winter) .—Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 301 

 (Costa Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 190 (Calovevora, Vera- 

 gua); Ibis, 1872, 317 (Chontales, Nicaragua); 1885, 190 (Cozumel); Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, "224 (Guatemala).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 iii, 1872, 127, 178 (Topeka, etc., e. Kansas; crit.).— Coues, Check List, 1873, 

 no. 199; Birds N. W., 1874, 171.— Ridqway, Bull. Essex Inst., 1873, 183 (e. 

 Colorado). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 8. — Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 82, pi. 29, figs. 13, 17.— Brace, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 242 (New Providence, Bahamas). — Brewster, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 122 (descr. young).— Sbnnett, Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 20 (Lower Rio Grande, Apr. 25) ; v, 1879, 393 

 (Lometa, Texas, May).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 128 (Fort 

 Brown, Texas, Apr., May). — Bouoard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 58 

 (San Jos6, Costa Rica, Mar.); 1883, 444 (Progreso, Yucatan). — McChesney, 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., v, 1879, 78 (Fort Sisseton, South 

 Dakota, May). — Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 90. — Zeledon, Cat. Avesde 

 Costa Rica, 1882, 8.— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 373, 383, 392 

 (San Juan del Sur, Sucuy^, and Ometepe, Nicaragua). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 364 (Belize, British Honduras; Escuintla, 

 Retalhuleu, San Geronimo, and Coban, Guatemala; La Union, Salvador; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui and Bugaba, Veragua; etc.). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xii, 1888, 617. 



[Cyanospiza^ cyanea Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 150. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av.Neotr., 1873, 29. 



Clyanospizal cyanea Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 109, 152 (n. e. Illinois, 

 May 8 to Oct. 1) . 



Emheriza C!/aneKa Sparrmann, Mus. Carlson. , faac. ii, 1787, 42, 43 (North America). 



[Emberiza^ cyanella Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 887. 



(?) [Emberizari cxrulea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 876 ("Canada;" based on 

 Emheriza canadensis cserulea Brisson Orn., iii, 298, pi. 14, fig. 2; Elm 

 Bunting Latham, Gen. Synop., ii, pt. i, 205; Pennant, Arct. Zool., ii, 365). 



l^Spiza'] cserulea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 474. 



CYANOSPIZA AMCENA (Say). 

 lAZULI BTJlfTING, 



Adndt male. — Head, neck, rump, and upper tail-coverts light ceru- 

 lean or turquoise blue, changing to light greenish blue (nile blue); 

 back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts darker and (especially back) 



