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FEMALE INDIGO FINCH. 
FEMALE INDIGO FINCH FRINGILLA CYANEA. 
Plate XV. Fig. 4. 
See WUsotCs American Ornithology, i. p. 100, pi. 6, fig. 5, for the male. — Tanagra 
cyanea, Linn. Syst. i. p. 315, sp. 6, adult male iu fuU plumage. — Emberiza 
cyanea, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 876, sp. 64. Lath. Ind. p. 415, sp. 60 Emberiza 
cyaneUa, Sparm. Mus. Carls, ii. pi. 42, 43. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 887, sp. 74.— 
Emberiza coerulea, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 876. Lath. Ind. p. 415, sp. 59, male in 
moult. — Tanagra coerulea ? Gmel. Syst, i. p. 891, sp. 27. Lath. Ind. p. 427, 
sp. 27, adult male. — Tanagra Carolinensis coerulea, Briss. Av. iii. p. 13, sp. 6, 
adult male in full dress. — Emberiza Canadensis coerulea, Briss. Av. iii. p. 298, sp. 
12, pi. 14, fig. 2, male moulting. — Passerina cyanea, VieilL Nouv. Diet. Hist. 
Nat. — FringiUa cyanea, Ohs. sp. 112. Id. Cat. and Synop. Birds U. S. 
sp. 164.— Linaria cyanea, Bartram, Trav. p. 296.— Linaria coerulea, the Blue 
Linnet, Cateshy, Carolina, i. p. 45, pi. 45. — Le ministre. Buff. Ois. iv. p. 86. — 
L’azuroux, Buff. Ois. iv. p. 369, male moulting Passe-bleu ? Buff. Ois. iii. p. 
495, adult male in full plumage. — Moineau bleu de Cayenne ? Buff. PI. Enl. 
203, fig. 2, adult male in full dress. — Blue Linnet, Edwards, Av. iv. p. 132, pi. 
273, lower figure. — Indigo Bunting, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. sp. 235. Lath. Syn. 
iv. p. 205, sp. 53. — Blue Bunting, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. sp. 234. Latham, 
Syn. iii. p. 205, sp. 52, male moulting. — BlueTanager? Lath. Syn. iii. p. 234, 
sp. 28. Philadelphia Museum, No. 6002, male ; 6003, female. 
SPIZA CYANEA. — Bonaparte. 
Male, see vol. i. p. 1 00, and note to F. amoena of present volume. 
The remarkable disparity existing between tbe plumage of 
tlie different sexes of the common indigo bird, renders it almost 
indispensably requisite that the female, unaccountably ne- 
glected by Wilson, as he generally granted this distinction in 
similar, and often in less important cases, should be figured 
in this work. Hardly any North American bird more abso- 
lutely stands in need of being thus illustrated, than the beau- 
tiful finch which is now the subject of our consideration. It 
could scarcely be expected that the student should easily re- 
cognise the brilliant indigo bird of Wilson’s first volume, in 
the humble garb in which it is represented in the annexed 
plate. But, however simple in its appearance, the plumage of 
