SP. CHAR. _Male._ Head and neck all round ultramarine-blue, excepting a narrow stripe from the chin to the breast, which, with the under parts generally, the eyelids, and the rump (which is tinged with purplish), are vermilion-red. Edges of chin, loral region, greater wing-coverts, inner tertiary, and interscapular region, green; the middle of the latter glossed with yellow. Tail-feathers, lesser wing-coverts, and outer webs of quills, purplish-blue. Length, about 5.50 inches; wing, 2.70. _Female._ Clear dark green above; yellowish beneath. _Young_, like female. HAB. South Atlantic and Gulf States to the Pecos River, Texas; south into Middle America to Panama; S. Illinois (RIDGWAY); Honduras (SCL. 1858, 358); Oaxaca (SCL. 1859, 379); Cordova (SCL. 1856, 304); Guatemala (SCL. Ibis, I, 17); Honduras (SCL. II, 10); Cuba (CAB. J. IV, 8); Veragua (SALV. 1867, 142); Costa Rica (LAWR. IX, 102); Vera Cruz, winter (SUM. M. B. S. I, 552); Yucatan (LAWR. IX, 200). Tail very slightly emarginated and rounded; second, third, and fourth quills equal; first rather shorter than the fifth. The female is readily distinguishable from that of _C. cyanea_ by the green instead of dull brown of the back, and the yellow of the under parts. Specimens of this species from all parts of its range appear to be quite identical. HABITS. The Nonpareil or Painted Bunting of the Southern and Southeastern States has a somewhat restricted distribution, not being found any farther to the north on the Atlantic Coast than South Carolina and Georgia, and probably only in the more southern portions of those States. It has been traced as far to the west as Texas. It was also met with at Monterey, Mexico, by Lieutenant Couch, and in winter by Mr. Boucard, at Plaza Vicente, Oaxaca. Mr. Dresser found it very common both at Matamoras and at San Antonio, breeding in both places. Dr. Coues did not meet with it in Columbia, S. C., and considers it as confined to the low country, and as rare even there. It breeds about the city of Charleston, S. C., from which neighborhood I have received its eggs in considerable numbers, from Dr. Bachman. It is also found in the lower counties of Georgia, and breeds in the vicinity of Savannah. It was not met with by Dr. Gerhardt in the northern portion of that State. Dr. Woodhouse found it quite abundant in all parts of Texas, where he tells us the sweet warblings of this beautiful and active little Finch added much to the pleasures of his trip across the prairies. Its favorite places of resort appeared to be small thickets, and when singing it selected the highest branches of a bush.