Plate CCCXCVIII. Fig. 3. Male. Fig. 4. Female.
Male with the head, neck all round, and a portion of the breast black;
the rest of the lower parts white, excepting the sides, which are
tinged with brown; fore part of back reddish-brown, rump dull grey;
quills dusky, the primaries edged with grey, the secondaries with
reddish-brown; tail dusky, with the outer two feathers on each side
white. Female with the head and neck blackish-grey, the back and
wing-coverts dull brownish-red, the other parts as in the male.
_Male_, 6-1/4; wing, 3-1/12.
Columbia River. Common. Migratory.
Fringilla oregona, Oregon Snow-Finch, Towns. Journ. Acad. Nat.
Sc. Philadelphia, v. vii. p. 188.
Oregon Snow-Finch, Fringilla oregona, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p.
68.
GENUS IV. SPIZA, Bonap. PAINTED-BUNTING.
Bill short, moderately stout, conical, acute; upper mandible rather
narrower, with the dorsal line somewhat convex, the ridge narrow, the
sides sloping and a little convex, the edges inclining upwards for a
third of their length, then direct, with a slight notch close to the
narrow declinate tip; lower mandible with the angle short and rounded,
the dorsal line very slightly convex, the sides rounded, the edges
involute, the tip acute. Nostrils basal, roundish, partly concealed by
the feathers. Head broadly ovate; neck short; body rather full. Feet
of moderate length; tarsus much compressed, with seven scutella; toes
of moderate size, hind toe large, lateral equal. Claws slender,
compressed, well arched, acute. Plumage full, soft, and blended. Wings
of moderate length, the second and third quills longest, the first
about equal to the fourth. Tail of moderate length, emarginate. Palate
anteriorly with their narrow ridges, forming a large oblong hard knob
at their base; tongue higher than broad, deeply grooved above,
pointed; œsophagus dilated into a crop; stomach elliptical,
muscular; intestine of moderate length; cœca very small.
169. 1. Spiza Ciris, Wils. Blue-headed
Painted-Bunting.--Painted-Bunting. Painted-Finch.
Plate LIII. Male and Female.
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.
_Male_, 5-1/4, 7-1/2.
From Texas to North Carolina, and up the Mississippi to Natchez.
Abundant. Migratory.
Painted Bunting, Emberiza Ciris, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p.
68.
Fringilla Ciris, Bonap. Syn. p. 107.
Painted Bunting, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 477.
Painted Finch, Fringilla Ciris, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 279;
v. v. p. 517.