CYAN08PIZA. 363 



Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 277'; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, 

 p. 421 \ 



Supra Isete cserulea, dorso medio paullo obscuriore, capite summo flayo-viridi, alis caudaque fusoo nigrican- 

 tibus dorsi colore limbatis ; oculorum ambitu, loris et corpore toto subtus flavissimis, pectore rabro-aurantio ; 

 rostro eomeo ; pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 4-8, alae 2-8, eaudae 2-2, tarsi 0-65. (Descr. maris ex Tehu- 

 antepec, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis, sed coloribus omnibus minus nitidis. 



Rab. Mexico, Acapulco {Leclancher i, A. H. MarkJiam 7), San Juan del Rio (Bebouoh ^), 

 Sierra Madre, Rio de la Ameria [Xantus % Tapana «, Tehuantepec city «, Caco- 

 prieto (Sumickrast). 



This beautiful species was discovered by M. Leclancher, one of the officers of the 

 French vessel ' Venus,' near Acapulco in Mexico during the expedition of that ship ^. 

 It was near the same spot that Captain A. H. Markham obtained an example in the 

 month of March 1880, more than forty years afterwards 7. C. leclancheri, as the late 

 Baron Lafresnaye called this bird, is restricted in its range to "Western Mexico, and 

 only passes a short way inland, San Juan del Rio being the furthest point from the 

 coast whence we have seen it ^. The southern limit of its range is the neighbourhood 

 of Tehuantepec, where Sumichrast found it and sent us specimens ^. 



The female is said to be like the male, the colours being less vivid. The species 

 would thus differ from all its congeners, where the difference between the sexes is 

 most marked. 



4. Oyanospiza amoena. 



Emberiza amoma, Say in Long's Exp. ii. p. 47 \ 



Cyanospiza amcena, Baird^ Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 84 ^ ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 



p. 276'. 

 Passerina amcena, Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed 2, p. 391 *. 



Capite, cervice undique, tectricibus alarum minoribus et'uropygio laete cseruleis, dorso nigricante-cseruleo ; aKs 

 et Cauda nigris, dorsi colore limbatis, illis fascia alba notatis, pectore Isete castaneo j corpore subtus reliquo 

 albo; rostri maxilla cornea, mandibula pallida, pedibus obscure corylinis. Long, tota 4-7, alse 2-9, 

 caudsB 2-2, tarsi 0'65. (Descr. maris Salt Lake City, Smiths. Inst. no. 58596. Mus. nostr.) 



$ supra fusco-brunnea, plumis medialiter vix obscurioribus ; subtus sordide albicans, ventre imo paullo paUi- 

 diore. (Descr. exempl. ex California, Smiths. Inst. no. 79652. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. NoKTH Ambeica, high central plains to the Pacific Ocean ^ ^. — Mexico, Mazatlan 

 {Grayson^), valley of Mexico {Mus. S. & G.). 



This is probably a more abundant bird in Mexico than we are at present aware of, 

 for the only records we have of its occurrence within our limits at all are one given 

 by Grayson of its presence at Mazatlan ^ and the evidence of a skin in our possession 

 which we found in a large collection of birds made near the city of Mexico. It seems, 

 like G. cyanea and C. ciris, to be a migratory species in the United States, reaching 

 its northern limits in -British Columbia in May. It is also found in Arizona ; hence it 

 is doubtless to be found in the frontier State of Sonora and further southwards. 



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