Plate CXXII. Male, Female, and Young.
Male blue; with the lores, chin, and a line round the base of the
mandibles black; wings and tail brownish-black, the latter and the
primaries edged with blue, the first row of small coverts and the
secondary coverts tipped with reddish-brown. Female with the head and
hind part of the back blue; the fore part of the back brown, the wings
and tail as in the male, the lower parts light greyish-brown, the
sides, and fore part of the neck and the breast tinged with blue.
Young yellowish-brown, lighter beneath; the upper part of the head,
the back, smaller wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts tinged with
dusky.
_Male_, 7-1/2, 11.
From Texas to New Jersey, and up the Mississippi to Memphis. Rocky
Mountains. Rather rare. Migratory.
Blue Grosbeak, Loxia cœrulea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii. p.
78.
Fringilla cœrulea, Bonap. Syn. p. 114.
Blue Grosbeak, Fringilla cœrulea, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 529.
Blue Grosbeak, Fringilla cœrulea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
140; v. v. p. 508.