364 FEINGILLID^. 



C. amoena is a western species, replacing the eastern C. cyanea in the west, many of 

 the habits of the two, such as the song, being very similar. The nest is described as 

 strongly built of finely interwoven grasses, lined with horsehair and cobwebs, and 

 placed in a fork of a bush a few feet from the ground. The eggs are light blue when 

 fresh, this colour soon fading to bluish white ^. 



5. Cyanospiza cyanea. 



Tanagra cyanea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 315 \ 



Cyanospiza cyanea, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 379'; 1864, p. 174'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 18*; 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836 = ; Cab. J. f. Om. 1861, p. 2"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 180 '; 



ix. pp. 103 8, 201'; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20'°; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 140"; 



Sumichrast, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H. i. p. 552 '^ Prantz. J. f. Om. 1869, p. 301"; Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 190 " ; Ibis, 1872, p. 317 '' ; Cat. Strickl. CoU. p. 224 " ; Ibis, 1885, p. 190"; 



Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N, Am. B. ii. p. 82 '' ; Gundl. Av. Cub. p. 93 " ; Sennett, Bull. U. S. 



Geol. Surv. iv. p. 20'°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 444"; Nutt. & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. vi. pp. 373 ", 383 '', 392 '*. 

 Passerina cyanea, Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 391 '^ 



Csemlea, capite saturatiue, corpore reliquo certa luce vixidescente ; alis caudaque fasco-nigricantibus, dorsi colore 

 limbatis ; rostro corneo; pedibus phimbeis. Long. tota4'7, alse 2'7, caud8e2"l, tarsi 0*75. (Descr. maris 

 ex Cbootam, Gruatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ brunnea, alis caudaque fuscis dorsi colore limbatis ; subtus pallide fusco-alba, peetore et hypocbondriis fusco 

 striatis. (Descr., feminse ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. NoETH Ameeica, Eastern States from Canada to Kansas, Indian Territory and 

 Texas ^^ ^o 25_ — Mexico, Guanajuato (Dugds ^^), valley of Mexico ( White ^), State of 

 Vera Cruz in winter (Sumichrast^^), Totontepec, Playa Vicente, Oaxaca (Boucard ^), 

 Santa Efigenia (Sumichrast ^^}, Merida in Yucatan (Schott % Progreso (Gaumer ^^), 

 Cozumel I. (Devis ^^) ; Beitish Hondueas, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala 

 (Constancia ^^), Duenas (0. 8^), Escuintla, Eetalhuleu, San Geronimo, Coban (0. S. 

 & F. B. G.) ; Salvadoe, La Union (0. S.) ; Hondueas, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely^); 

 NiCAEAGUA, Chontales (Belt^^), Sucuya^s, Omotepe IP, San Juan del Sur^a 

 (Nutting), Greytown (Holland''); Costa Eica (v. Fraiitzius^^'^^), Barranca, San 

 Jose, Dota Mountains (CarmioP), Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (JrcS). 

 —Cuba i^. 



The Indigo-bird, under which name this species is known in the Eastern States of North 

 America, is a winter visitor to Mexico and Central America, at which season it spreads 

 over a large part of the country as far south as the State of Panama. Its range in Mexico 

 is mostly confined to the eastern part of that country, for, though traced to Guanajuato 

 and the valley of Mexico, it is absent from the western parts until we reach the 

 isthmus of Tehuantepec, a range of distribution followed by several birds whose summer 

 quarters embrace the eastern States of the northern continent. 



In Guatemala it is common, and may usually be seen in small flocks consisting of 

 birds in various stages of plumage, adult males being rarely seen. It is here a dvill 



