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herbage in waste places. They were slightly constructed of dry grass-stems, lined with 
hair, or sometimes with the stems of a small flowering plant. The eggs, two in number, 
are white or bluish white, spotted with red or red-brown, chiefly in a zone round the 
larger end. 
PHONIPARA. 
Phonipara, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 494 (1850). 
Euetheia, Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. t. Ixxix. (1850). 
This little genus is chiefly of Antillean habitat, four species being found in various 
islands. A single species occurs in Mexico and Central America, a closely allied form 
occurring in the island of Cozumel. 
The bill of P. pusilla is sharp, the culmen but slightly curved; the nostrils are 
exposed at the distal end of the nasal fossa, and in front of this fossa is a slight depres- 
sion, more definite in some specimens than others. The tomia of the maxilla is bent, 
the outer portion slightly arched; the tomia of the mandible is nearly straight from 
the angle to the tip, the sides of the mandible being much curved inwards. 
The legs are rather stout, the tarsus being about equal to the middle toe and claw. 
The wings are rounded, the second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries being nearly 
equal and longest; the tail is moderate and rounded. 
The generic name Phonipara was proposed by Bonaparte in 1850 for P. canora 
and several of its allies. Huetheta was proposed by Reichenbach, it is said, for the same 
birds, and has been adopted by several later writers in place of Phonipara. We 
think, however, that the latter name may be retained, seeing that Huethia was intro- 
duced without a line of description, and the type species must always remain uncertain. 
In point of date Ewethia has a slight advantage, having been published, so Dr. Meyer 
tells us, on Ist June, 1850, the sheet of the ‘Conspectus Avium’ containing Phonipara 
bearing the signature 30th July, 1850. 
1. Phonipara pusilla. 
Tiaris pusilla, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p.4387. 
Euethia pusilla, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1. p. 146°; J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 1°. 
Phonipara pusilla, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 304*; 1859, pp. 865’, 379°; 1864, p. 174°; Lawr. Ann. 
Lyc. N. Y. vil. p. 298°; ix. pp. 103’, 201”; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 20"; Scl. & 
Salv. P. Z.S. 1864, p. 8352; 1879, p. 507”; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1865, p. 169"; Salv. 
Ibis, 1866, p. 193”; P. Z.S. 1867, p. 142°; 1870, p. 190°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H. i. p. 552; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 301”; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328”; Boucard, 
P. Z. 8S. 1883, p. 444. 
Fringilla lepida, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég. p. 2, cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 56%; Wagl. Isis, 1831, 
p. 525”. 
Tiaris olivacea, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848, p. 91 (nec Latham)”. 
