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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus ETXSPXZA, Bonap. (Page 62.) 
E. americana. Top and sides of head light slate ; forehead tinged with greenish- 
yellow. A superciliary stripe, a maxillary spot, sides of breast, and middle line of breast 
and belly, yellow. Chin white, throat black, shoulders chestnut. Female with the black 
of the throat replaced by a crescent of spots. Length, 6.70 ; wing, 3.50. Nest usually 
on ground, sometimes in low bushes ; eggs blue, unspotted. Hdb. Eastern Province of 
United States ; south to New Grenada. ( Black-throated Bunting .) 
E. townsendi. Body throughout (including the jugulum), dark ash, tinged with 
brownish on the back and wings. Superciliary and maxillary stripe, chin, throat, and 
middle of belly, white. A maxillary line and a pectoral crescent of black spots. No 
chestnut shoulders. Length, 5.75 : wing, 2.86. Hdb. Chester Co., Pennsylvania. ( Town- 
sends Bunting.) 
Genus HEDYMELES, Cabanis. (Page 62.) 
Common Characters. $. Head and upper parts (except rump) deep black. 
Two broad bands across coverts, a large patch on base of primaries, and ter- 
minal half of inner webs of tail-feathers, pure white. Breast carmine or cinna- 
mon ; axillars and lining of wing carmine or gamboge. $> . Black replaced by 
ochraceous-brown ; other parts more streaked. Length, about 8 inches ; wing, 
4.20. Nest on trees, loosely built; eggs greenish, thickly and coarsely blotched 
with reddish-brown. 
H. ludovicianus. Rump and lower parts white ; lining of wing, and patch 
on breast, rosy carmine. No nuchal collar. Female. Lining of wing 
saffron-yellow; breast with numerous streaks. Hdb. Eastern Province 
of North America, south, in winter, to Ecuador. ( Rose-breasted G-rosbeak.) 
H. melanocephalus. Rump and lower parts cinnamon-rufous ; lining of 
wing and middle of abdomen gamboge-yellow. A nuchal collar of rufous. 
Female. Lining of wing lemon-yellow; breast without streaks; abdomen 
tinged with lemon-yellow. ( Black-lieaded Grosbeak.) 
Crown continuous black. No post-ocular rufous stripe. Hdb. Moun- 
tains of Mexico, and Central Rocky Mountains of United States. 
var. melanocephalus. 
Crown divided by a longitudinal rufous stripe ; a distinct post-ocular 
stripe of the same. Hdb. 
in winter, to Colima . 
Western Province of United States, south, 
var. capitalis. 
Genus GUIRACA, Swainson. (Page 63.) 
G. caerulea. Brilliant blue. Space around base of the bill and lores, with tail-feathers, 
black. Two bands on the wing across the tips of the secondary coverts, with outer edges 
of tertiaries, reddish-brown. Female yellowish-brown above, brownish-yellow beneath ; 
darkest across the breast. Length of male, 7.25; wing, 3.50; tail, 2.80. Nest in trees or 
bushes ; eggs uniform light blue. Hdb. More southern United States from Atlantic to 
{Blue Grosbeak.) 
Pacific, south to Costa Rica. 
3 Genus CYANOSPIZA, Baird. (Page 63.) 
Common Characters. Size small, scarcely reaching six inches. Males red, 
blue, or green ; sometimes varied. Females plain olivaceous or brownish ; paler 
beneath. Nest in bushes or in trees ; eggs plain pale blue, except in C. ciris. 
