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A. Head all round uniform blue ; eyelids not different, commissure distinctly sin- 
! uated. 
a. Lower parts blue ; no white bands on wing. 
1. C. cyanea. Entirely deep ultramarine-blue, more purplish on the 
head, somewhat greenish posteriorly. Female dull umber above, grayish- 
white beneath, the breast with obsolete darker streaks. Hob. Eastern 
Province of United States, south, in winter, to Panama. {Indigo Bird.) 
b. Lower parts white, the breast rufous. One broad and distinct, and a 
narrower, more obsolete white band on the wing. 
2. C. amcena. Head and neck, all round, and rump, bright greenish- 
blue ; back, wings, and tail more dusky ; a narrow white collar between 
rufous of the breast and blue of the throat. Female grayish-brown 
above, the rump tinged with blue. Beneath dull whitish, the breast 
and jugulum more buffy. Fab. Western Province of United States. 
{Lazuli Bunting .) ,,|k 
B. Head party-colored ; eyelids different from adjoining portions. Commissure 
hardly appreciably sinuated, or even concave. 
a. Back and breast similar in color. Upper mandible much less deep than 
lower, the commissure concave. 
3. C. versicolor. Back and breast dark wine-purple, occiput and 
throat claret-red, forehead and rump purplish-blue. Eyelids purplish- 
red. Female fulvous-gray above, uniform pale fulvous below. Fab. 
Northern Mexico, and adjacent borders of United States; Cape St. 
Lucas. Nesting unknown. ( Varied Bunting .) 
b. Back and breast very different in color. Upper mandible scarcely less 
deep than the lower, the commissure straight, or slightly sinuated. 
4. C. ciris. Lower parts vermilion-red. Back green, crown blue; 
rump dull red; eyelids red. Female dull green above, light olivaceous- 
yellow below. Eggs white, with purple and reddish dots and blotches. 
Fab. Gulf States of United States, and whole of Middle America. 
{Nonpareil.) 
5. C. leclancheri. Lower parts gamboge-yellow. Back blue, crown 
green, rump blue ; eyelids yellow. Female not seen. Fab. Southern ' 
Mexico. 
Genus SPERMOPECILA, Swainson. (Page 63.) 
I S. moreleti. The top and sides of the head, back of the neck, a broad band across 
the upper part of the breast extending all round, the middle of the back, the wings and 
tail, with the posterior upper coverts, black. The chin, upper throat and neck all round, 
I but interrupted behind, the rump, with the remaining under and lateral portions of the 
1 body, white ; the latter tinged with brownish-yellow. Two bands on the wing, across 
> the greater and middle coverts, with the concealed bases of all the quills, also white. 
[ Length, about 4 inches ; wing, 2.05 ; tail, 1.90. Female. Bull yellow; olivaceous above, 
[ brownish-yellow beneath. Wings and tail somewhat as in the male. Nesting unknown. 
I Fab. Rio Grande of Texas ; south to Costa Rica. {Little Seed-eater.) 
Genus PHONIPARA, Bonap. (Page 63.) 
: P. zena. Above dull grayish olive-green. Head and lower parts, especially an- 
; teriorly, dull black, mixed with whitish posteriorly. 9 . Head and beneath ashy. Length, 
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