Descriptions of First Plumage of Cer- 
tain North Am, Hbs, Win- Brewster, 
74. Cyanospiza cyanea. 
First plumage : female. Above dark reddish-brown, slightly tinned 
with olive, a few of the feathers upon the interscapular region with very 
obscure dusky central markings. Beneath pale reddish-brown, deepest 
upon the abdominal and anal regions ; streaked distinctly on the sides 
and across the breast with dusky brown. From a specimen in my cabi- 
net collected at Cambridge, Mass., July 15 , 1872. 
MN.O.O, S, July, 1875. p. 
Albinism and Melanism in North 
American Birds* Ruthven Deane. 
Mr. S. Palmer 
of Ipswich informs me that he has an albino Indigo-Bird. 
Ball N. O.O. 4, Jan., 1879, p. 29 
