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Bullfinch Tanagers. 



A short beak, when viewed vertically, showing an enlargement on 

 each side of its base; the tail proportionably shorter. (l) 



Grossbeak Tanagers. 



The beak conical, thick, convex, as broad as it is high, the back 

 of the upper mandible rounded. (2) 



Tanagers, properly so called. 



A conical beak, shorter than the head, as broad as it is high, the 

 upper mandible arcuated, somewhat pointed. (3) 



Oriole Tanagers. 

 The beak conical, arcuated, pointed and notched at the end.(4) 



Cardinal Tanagers. 



Beak conical, somewhat vaulted, an obtuse salient tooth on the 

 side.(5) 



(1) Tanag- violacea, Enl. 114, 1, 2 T. cayennensis, lb. 3 Pipra musica, Enl. 

 809, 1 Tan. diademata, Natterer, Col. 243 ov Lindohleu, Azz., ov Bouvreuil azure, 

 Vieill. Gal. 54 The Lindo bleu dor e.,Kzz. {Tan. chrysogaster, Cuv. ) Tan. viridis, 

 Vieill. Col. 36, 3. 



(2) Tan. magna, Enl. 205. Tan- atra, Enl. 714, 2. Coracias cayennensis, Enl. 

 616. Tan. flammiceps, Pr. M.ix. Col. 177 Tan. superciliosa, Spix, 57, 1. Tan. 

 psittacina, lb. 2. Tan. atricollis. Id. 56, 2. It is on this division that Vieillot has 

 founded his genus Habia, 



(3) Tan. talao, Enl. 127, 2. tricolor, Enl. 33. mexicano, 290, 2 and 155, 1. 

 gyrola, Enl. 201, 2, and 290, 1. episcopus, Enl. 178. ccelestis, Spix, 55, 1. 

 varia, Desm. {Motacilla velia, L) Enl. 669, 3, of which the T. Schrankii, Spix, 51, 

 is probably the young-. T. punctata 2ind siaca, Enl. 133, L T. multicolor, Vieill. 

 Gal. 76, or Fring. zena, L Catesby, I, 42. T. thoracica, Tem. Col. 42, 1. T. citri- 

 nella, lb. 2. T. vittata, lb. 48. T. penicillata, Spix, 49. T. auricapilla. Id. 52- 

 T. vittata, T. Col. 48. T. leucoptera, or Oriolus leucoperus. Lath. Syn. 



(4) The T. gularis, Enl. 156; pileata, 720, 2, and speculifera, Spi.x, S6, 1, ap- 

 proach the Motacillx in their more slender beak. T. nigricolUs, 720, 1, is a true 

 motacilla, a sort of Regulus witli a rather large beak. 



(5) T. cristata, Enl. 7, 2 and 301, 2, of which the T. brunnea, Spix, 49, 2, is the 

 young. nigerrima, Enl. 179, 2 and 711. olivacea. archiepiscopus, Desm. Spix, 

 56, 2. Ta7i. )~ujiventer, Spix, 50, 1. riifigularis. Id., 5&, 5. Saira, Id. 48, 1. 

 viridis, lb. 2. This division has been named Tachypuonus, by Vieillot, Gal. 82. 



But we should also refer to it, his genus Pxhanga, which is solely founded on an 

 individual deformity. We will name his species Tan. cyanictera. 



The Palmiste, Buff. Enl. 509, 1 {Turd, pdlmarum, Gm.), Vieill. Am. II, 69, also 

 belongs to it; its notch is scarcely sensible, and it almost wholly disappears in a 

 neighbouring species, of which Vieillot has made his genus Icteria, let, dumicola, 



