Distributed throughout the United States during summer. Abundant. Migratory. Indigo Bird, Fringilla cyanea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 100. Fringilla cyanea, Bonap. Syn. p. 107. Indigo Bird, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 473. Indigo Bird, Fringilla cyanea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 377; v. v. p. 503. 171. 3. Spiza amœna, 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. _Male_, 5-1/2; wing, 3-1/12. From the Arkansas to the Columbia River. Never seen near the Atlantic coast. Plentiful. Migratory. Emberiza amœna, Say, Long's Exped. Lazuli Finch, Fringilla amœna, Bonap. Amer. Orn. v. i. p. 61. Fringilla amœna, Bonap. Syn. p. 106. Lazuli Finch, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 478. Lazuli Finch, Fringilla amœna, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 64, and p. 230. GENUS V. AMMODRAMUS, Swains. SHORE-FINCH. Bill rather long, being little shorter than the head, rather slender, straight, considerably compressed, acute; upper mandible with the dorsal line considerably convex, the ridge narrow, the sides convex, the edges inflected, with a slight festoon about the middle, and a faint notch, close to the tip, which is deflected and acute; lower mandible with the angle short and rounded, the dorsal line ascending and straight, the ridge rounded, the sides convex, the edges involute, the tip acute. Nostrils small, elliptical, basal, partially concealed by the plumage. Head ovate; neck short; body slender. Tarsus rather short, stoutish, compressed, with seven scutella; toes rather long, hind toe large, outer shorter than inner, and adherent at the base. Claws long, slender, little arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, tapering to a fine point. Plumage soft and blended, with the filaments stiffish and disunited. No bristles. Wings short, convex, rounded, the second, third, and fourth quills longest, the first considerably shorter. Tail of moderate length, graduated, slender, of twelve narrow, acuminate feathers. No difference in the colours of the sexes. 172. 1. Ammodramus maritimus, Wils. Grey Shore-Finch.--Sea-side Finch. Plate XCIII. Male and Female.