38. Passerina cyanea (L.) Gray. Indigo Bunting.—Rather common about open places, but very shy. Not in song.
39. Passerina ciris (L.) Gray. Painted Bunting; Nonpareil.—First seen on the 16th. A male in full song captured on the 19th—the only two seen. Mr. Wederstraudt, who has trapped them, using a captive male as a decoy, says that the same individual is always to be found within a few hundred feet of the place where first observed. I saw several males in confinement in New Orleans, and observed that the red of the underparts was heavily blotched and obscured by yellow, and attributed it to immaturity, but was informed that it was due to the confinement. They are called “Pops” here, the derivation of which name I could not make out.
40. Agelæus phœniceus (L.) V. Red-and-buff-shouldered Blackbird.—Abundant in swampy places.
41. Sturnella magna (L.) Sw. Meadow Lark.—Common in old fields. Their note seemed to me to be different from that of the Kentucky bird.
42. Icterus spurius (L.) Bp. Orchard Oriole.—Common about open ground.
43. Icterus galbula (L.) Coues. Baltimore Oriole.—Observed several singing in shade trees in Bayou Sara and St. Francisville.
44. Quiscalus purpureus (Bartr.) Licht. Purple Grackle.—A common Grackle about the river and bayou at Bayou Sara is referred to this form, as the one found forty or fifty miles down the river is according to Dr. Langdon the Purple, and not the Bronzed Grackle.
45. Corvus frugivorus Bartr. Common Crow.—Common.
46. Cyanocitta cristata (L.) Strickl. Blue Jay.—Common.
47. Tyrannus carolinensis (L.) Temm. Kingbird; Bee Martin.—Common.