BIBD8 OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 601 



^)Quiraca cyanea {not Loxia cyanea Linnseus) Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1873, 264 (Nauta, lower Ucayali, and Ohyavetas, e. Peru; crit. )■ — 



Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 71, part. 

 Guiraca q/anea Chapman, Auk, vii, 1890, 268 (Santarem, Lower Amazon). 



CYANOCOMPSA PARELLINA PARELLINA (Bonaparte). 

 BLTTE BUNTING. 



Adult male. — Dark cyanine or marine blue, becoming^ bright cobalt 

 or azure blue on forehead, cheeks, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts; lores black; wings and tail black with bluish edg- 

 ings; maxilla blackish or dusky horn color; mandible gra}dsh horn 

 color; iris brown; legs and feet brownish black or dusky horn color. 



Admit female andyouTig. — Above brown (nearl}^ raw umber), beneath 

 paler (wood brown or cinnamon-brown), paler still on throat and 

 abdomen. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 118.11-132.08 (125.48); wing, 68.07- 

 71.12 (69.60); tail, 53.34-66.64: (55.12); culmen, from base, 11.94- 

 12.70 (12.45); depth of bill at base, 7.62-9.91 (8.89); width of man- 

 dible at base, 7.11-8.18 (7.62); tarsus, 18.03-20.82 (19.05); middle toe, 

 11.43-13.21 (12.45).' 



Adidt female.— Length (skins), 116.84-130.81 (124.21); wing, 64.26- 

 67.31 (66.04); tail, 50.29-55.12 (52.58); culmen, from base, 11.48- 

 12.45 (11.94); depth of bill at base, 8.64-8.89; width of mandible at 

 base, 7.37-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 18.29-19.05 (18.80); middle toe, 12.46- 

 12.70 (12.64).' 



Eastern Mexico, in States of Nuevo Leon (Boquillo, Sierra Madre, 

 Monterey), Tamaulipas (Alta Mira), San Luis Potosi (Valles), Puebla, 

 (Metlaltoyuca), Vera Cruz (Mira,dor, Chichicaxtli, Alvarado, Cordova, 

 Jalapa, San Andres Tuxtla, Totontepec, etc.), Tabasco (Frontera), and 

 Yucatan (Merida, La Vega, Puerto Morelos, etc.). 



[Oyanoloxia] parellina Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Aug. 15, 1850, 502 (Alvarado, 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico ; Berlin Mus. ; ex Fringilla parellina Lichtenstein, manu- 

 script). 



Goniaphea parellina Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 302 (Cordova, \^era 

 Cruz). 



Goniaphxa parellina Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 228 (San Andres 

 Tuxtla, Vera Cruz) . 



Oyanospiza parellina Baied, Rep. Pacific E. E.. Surv., ix, 1858, 502 (Sierra Madre, 

 Nuevo Leon; Tamaulipas) ; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 56, fig. 1; 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 383; Bep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 

 ii, 1859, 17, pi. 18, fig. 1 (Sierra Madre, Nuevo Leon). — Baird, Brewer, and 

 EiDGWAY, Hiat. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 29, fig. 6 (no text). — Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1869, 551 (hot region of Vera Cruz up to 800 

 • meters) . 



Guiraca parellina Solatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 

 (?) 378 (Totontepec, Oaxaca»); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 101 (Jalapa).— 



'Eighteen specimens. ''Four specimens. 'Perhaps C. ^. sitmic/irasii. 



