362 FEINGILLIDiE, 



C. versicolor had for a long time to be included in the birds of North America was 

 its occurrence in the peninsula of Lower California, where it breeds, Mr. Xantus having 

 found a nest and three eggs on May 5th at Cape San Lucas. It is now known to cross 

 the Rio Grande, Mr. Sennett and Dr. Merrill having both met with it on the Texan 

 side of the river. It has also occurred in Michigan, but this is far outside its ordinary 

 range. 



In Mexico C. versicolor is widely distributed, and is common, according to Grayson, 

 at Mazatlan, where it is a constant resident, as well as at Tepic in the State of Jalisco. 

 The same traveller says that it has a sweet song, which it utters morning and evening 

 from the top of a bush ^^. Sumichrast includes it amongst the resident birds of Vera 

 Cruz ; but he says it is quite rare, though found in the neighbourhood of Orizaba ^. 



In Guatemala it is still more scarce. We never met with it ourselves ; but the late 

 Mr. Skinner sent a specimen to Gould, and another has reached the Smithsonian 

 Institution from Dr. Van Patten. 



2. Cyanospiza rositae. (Tab. XXV.) 



Cyanospiza rositm, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. p. 397'; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20^; Salv. 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 309 '. 



Lsete cserulea ; dorso certa luce viridescente vix induto, alls et Cauda nigricantibus dorsi colore Umbatis ; loris 

 nigris, ciHis albis ; abdomine toto Isete rosaceo plerumque cseruleo intermisto, crisso pure rosaceo ; rostro 

 comeo, mandibula subtus pallida, pedibus ooiylinis. Long, tota 5"3, alse 2-8, caudae 2*1, tarsi 0'65. 



5 supra fusca, dorso postico et canda csBrulescentibus ; subtus brunnea, ventre palUdiore et rosaceo lavato. 

 (Descr. maris et feminaj ex Cacoprieto, Tehuantepec, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico, Cacoprieto, isthmus of Tehuantepec {Swmichrast^^ ^). 



This is another very beautiful species, whose range, so far as we know, is limited to 

 a|small district on the isthmus of Tehuantepec, where alone the late Prof. Sumichrast 

 met with it, and from whom we have received specimens of both sexes and young males 

 in change of plumage. 



The combination of blue and rosy pink in the plumage of this species suggests that 

 it may occupy an intermediate position between C. cyanea and C. ciris, but there is 

 nothing else in common with them to support such a view, and C. rositce is, in reality, a 

 very isolated form, in fact quite as distinct as any of the other species of Cyano^za, a 

 genus remarkable for the definite character of all its species, which, again, are free 

 from any perceptible variation in themselves. If the specific characters of all birds 

 were drawn with the precision of the members of Cyanospiza, ornithologists would 

 have an easy task in defining them ! 



3. Cyanospiza leclancheri. 



Passerina leclancheri, Lafr. Mag. Zool. 1841, Ois. t. 23 \ 



Spiza leclancheri, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 475 ^ 



Cyanospiza leclancheri, Duges, La Nat. i. p. 140%- Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 551 *; Lawr. Mem. 



