BIRDS—FKINGiLLIDAE —CYANOSPIZA CYANEA, 
505 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
\ 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1898 
5999 
5395 
5396 
5397 
5398 
8948 
5982 
2870 
4385 
3897 
5549 
6269 
6267 
June 26, 1843 
S. F. Baird. 
A 
.do. 
5.50 
8.75 
2.50 
o 
s 
9 
c? 
Eyes black. 
5.00 
9.00 
2.75 
5.75 
9.00 
3.00 
5.50 
8.25 
2.75 
Fort Steilacoom, IV. T.. 
May 15, 1855 
June 3, 1836 
5.60 
8.75 
Bill bluish below... 
O 
V 
<? 
173 
6.25 
9.50 
2.92 
o 
<? 
9 
9 
896 
6268 
CYANOSPIZA CYANEA, Baird. 
Indigo Bird. 
Tanagra cyanea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 176G, 315. 
Emberiza cyanea, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 876. 
Fringilla cyanea, Wilson, I, 1810, 100 ; pi. vi, f. 5.— Aud. Orn. Biog. 1, 1832, 377 : V, 503 ; pi. 74. 
Passerina cyanea, Yieill. Diet. 
Spiza cyanea, Bon. List, 1838.— Ib. Consp. 1850, 474.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 109.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841, 96 ; pi. 
170. 
?Emberiza cyanella, Gm. I, 1788, 887. 
? Emberiza caerulea, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 876. 
Indigo bunting, and Blue bunting, Pennant and Latham. 
Sp. Ch. — Male. Blue, tinged with ultramarine on the head, throat, and middle of breast ; elsewhere with verdigris green. 
Lores and anterior angle of chin velvet black. Wing feathers brown, edged externally with dull bluish brown. 
Female. Brown above ; whitish, obscurely streaked or blotched with brownish yellow, beneath. Immature males similar, 
variously blotched with blue. 
Length, about 5.75 inches ; wing, nearly 3.00. 
Hab. —Eastern United States to the Missouri ; south to Guatemala. 
In this species, -which may he considered the type of the genus, the tail is slightly emarginate; 
the second quill is longest, the first shorter than the fourth. 
One specimen before me has the primary quills white. This is, however, merely an indication 
of albinism. 
64 b 
June 19, 1858. 
