586 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MJSEUM. 



Cijanoapiza araoeiiri'^ Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 504; Cat. X. Am. 

 Birds, 1859, no. 386.— Xanths, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 192 (Fort 

 Tejon, California).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 107 (New 

 ^lexico). — Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 

 205 (Puget Sound, Dalles, etc.) .— Browx, Ibis, 1864, 423 (Vancouver I.).— 

 Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 238.— Allen, Bull. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 145 

 (Cheyenne, Wyoming) , 178 {w. edge of Great Plains; Colorado, up to 8,000 

 ft.; Ogden, Utah); Proc. Bost. S<jc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 45, 59 (Fort Rice, etc.. 

 North Dakota).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 200; Birds N. W., 1874, 170.— 

 Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 276 (Mazatlan) . — Baird, Breweh, 

 and RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 84, pi. 29, figs. 11, 12.— Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. AVheeler's Surv., 1873 (1874), 63 (Denver, Colorado), 120 

 (Apache and San Pedro, Arizona, Aug. to Oct. ) ; Zool. Exp. W. 100th ilerid., 

 1875, 300 (localitiesin Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; habits). — Sxow, 

 Birds Kansas, 3d ed., 1875, 7 (w. -Kansas, summer resid.). — Ridgway, Orn. 

 40th Parallel, 1877, 490 (Sacramento, California; Nevada; Utah; habits, 

 etc.) .— Beldixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 419 (centr. California) .- 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 363 (valley of 

 Mexico) .—Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 620. 



ICyatiospiza^ iimoma Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 150. 



[Passe)-ina] mncena Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 97, no. 7436. 



Passerlna amoena Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 96; Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 296.— Ridgway, Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 249.- 

 Beldisg and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 541 (La Paz, Lower 

 California, winter) . — Agersborg, Auk, ii, 1885, 281 (s. e. Dakota, breeding).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 599. — Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 219 (Vermilion, S. Dakota, and Ellis, Kansas, sum- 

 mer) .—Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H, iii, 1890, 148 (British Columbia, 

 chiefly east of Cascade Mts.). — Fannin, Check List Birds Brit. Col., 1891, 38 

 (chiefly east of Cascade Mts. ; rare on Vancouver I.) . — Goss, Birds Kansas, 

 1891, 491 (w. Kansas, rare summer resid.). — Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1893, 52, 64 (bet. Coast Range and Rocky Mts., British Columbia).— 

 Richmond and Knowlton, Auk, xi, 1894, 306 (s. -centr. Montana). — Nehk- 

 LiNG, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 219, pi. 28, fig. 4. 



P.lasserinci] aincena Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed, 1884, 391. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 447. 



CYANOSPIZA CIRIS (Linnaeus). 

 NONPAREIL; PAINTED BUNTING, 



Adult male. — Head and neck, except chin and throat, purplish blue 

 (smalt or hyacinth) ; back and scapulars bright yellowish green (apple 

 green) or greenish yellow; rump and upper tail-coverts purplish red; 

 orbital ring (more or less complete), and under parts, including throat, 

 veimilion red; greater wing-coverts parrot green; middle coverts dull 

 reddish purple, lesser co^'erts dull purplish blue; remiges dusky, edged 

 with dull purplish and green; rectrices dull dusky reddish or purplish; 



^ ilariy of the references to this combination, including nearly all the more reeelit 

 ones, give oe in the diphthong form (oe); but I have not attempted to sort the 

 references according to this difference. 



