FRINGILLIN^. AMMODRAMUS. 
109 
Male, 51, 7-2-. 
Distributed throughout the United States during summer. Abun- 
dant. Migratory. 
Indigo Bird, Fringilla cyanea, Wils. Amer. Om. v. i. p. 100. 
Fi’ingilla cyanea, Bo nap. Syn. p. 107. 
Indigo Bird, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 473. 
Indigo Bird, Fringilla cyanea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 377 ; v. v. p. 503. 
171. 3 . Spiza amoena, Say. Lazuli Painted-Bunting. — 
Lazuli Finch. 
Plate CCCXCVIII. Fig. 1. Male. Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 1. Female. 
Male with the head^ neck^ and upper parts, light greenish-blue, the 
fore part of the back duller ; loral space black ; wings and tail dusky, 
the feathers margined with blue ; two white bands on the wing ; on 
the fore part of the breast a broad band of yellowish-red, the rest of 
the lower parts white. Female with the upper parts light yellowish- 
brown, the rump greenish-blue ; fore parts pale yellowish-red, fading 
behind into white. 
Male, 51 ; wing, 
From the Arkansas to the Columbia River. Never seen near the 
Atlantic coast. Plentiful. Migratory. 
Emberiza amoena. Say, Long’.s Exped. 
Lazuli Finch, Fringilla amoena, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 61. 
Fi’ingilla amoena, Bonap. Syn. p. 106. 
Lazuli Finch, Nutt. Man. v. i, p. 478. 
Lazuli Finch, Fringilla amoena, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 64, and p. 230. 
GENUS V. AMMODRAMUS, Swains. SHORE-FINCH. 
Bill rather long, being little shorter than the head, rather 
slender, straight, considerably compressed, acute ; upper 
mandible with the dorsal line considerably convex, the ridge 
narrow, the sides convex, the edges inflected, with a slight 
festoon about the middle, and a faint notch, close to the 
tip, which is deflected and acute ; lower mandible with the 
angle short and rounded, the dorsal line ascending and 
straight, the ridge rounded, the sides convex, the edges 
involute, the tip acute. Nostrils small, elliptical, basal, par- 
tially concealed by the plumage. Head ovate ; neck short ; 
body slender. Tarsus rather short, stoutish, compressed, 
with seven scutella ; toes rather long, hind toe large, outer 
shorter than inner, and adherent at the base. Claws long, 
slender, little arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, 
