PAINTED BUNTING. MALE. 
Emberiza Ciris. Lyn. Syst . i. p. 315. 24 . 
Fringilla mariposa* Scop. am. i. No. 222. 
Le Verdier de laLouisiane (dit 
lePape.) Bris. Orn. iii. p. 200. $5. 
Buff. Ois. iv. p. 17 6 . PL 9 . 
Painted Finch. Edw. iv. p. no. 
Painted Bunting. Arct. Zool. 
Lath. Gen . Syn. ii. p. 20 6 . 
This subject inhabits the warmer parts of Canada, and is to be found as 
far south as Mexico, Brazil, Guiana, icc . In the summer they are met 
with at Carolina, but none are seen near the inhabited parts, or nearer than 
one hundred and fifty miles from the sea ; they migrate in winter, per haps 
as far as Vera Cruz, in Spanish America, where they are called by the 
Spaniards Misaposa Pi?itada, or the Painted Butterfly. 
Nature requires time to perfect the plumage of this beautiful species; the 
first year it is of a plain brown ; the second year the head assumes a vivid 
blue ; the rest of the body is of a blue-green ; and it is not until the third 
year that it fully attains the perfection of its charming tints, at which time 
the head and neck are of a splendid blue, the irides hazel, the orbit scarlet, 
the upper part of the back and scapulars variegated with different tints of 
green ; the fore part of the neck , the breast, the belly, coverts above and beneath 
the tail, scarlet, inclining on the sides to orange. The lesser coverts of 
the wings are of a fine blue, the next light orange colour; the wings and 
tail dusky brown, edged with green ; the legs brovrn. 
