169. 1. Spiza Ciris, Wils. Blue-headed Painted-Bunting.--Painted-Bunting. Painted-Finch.
Male with the head and hind neck ultramarine-blue, eyelids vermilion; fore part of back and scapulars yellowish-green; rump purplish-red; smaller wing-coverts purplish-blue, secondary coverts green; quills and tail-feathers dusky; lower parts bright vermilion. Female yellowish-green above, greenish-yellow beneath. Young like the female. In the second year, the male with the upper parts olive-green, the lower dull orange, paler behind, head as in the adult; in the third year, with the back mottled with yellow and light green, the secondary coverts green, the rest as in the adult.
From Texas to North Carolina, and up the Mississippi to Natchez. Abundant. Migratory.
Painted Bunting, Emberiza Ciris, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p. 68.
Painted Bunting, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 477.
Painted Finch, Fringilla Ciris, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 279; v. v. p. 517.
170. 2. Spiza cyanea, Wils. Indigo Painted-Bunting.--Indigo Bird.
Male blue, tinged with verdigris-green, on the head approaching to ultramarine; quills and tail-feathers dusky, edged with greenish-blue. Female yellowish-brown above, paler beneath. Young like the female. Male, in the first autumn, of a lighter and duller blue than in the adult, the feathers of the upper parts tipped with brown, of the lower with yellowish, in the second year nearly as in the adult, but with the smaller coverts dull brown.
Distributed throughout the United States during summer. Abundant. Migratory.
Indigo Bird, Fringilla cyanea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 100.
Indigo Bird, Fringilla cyanea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 377; v. v. p. 503.
171. 3. Spiza amoena, Say. Lazuli Painted-Bunting.--Lazuli Finch.
Plate CCCXCVIII. Fig. 1. Male. Plate CCCCXXIV. Fig. 1. Female.
Male with the head, neck, and upper parts, light greenish-blue, the fore part of the back duller; loral space black; wings and tail dusky, the feathers margined with blue; two white bands on the wing; on the fore part of the breast a broad band of yellowish-red, the rest of the lower parts white. Female with the upper parts light yellowish-brown, the rump greenish-blue; fore parts pale yellowish-red, fading behind into white.
