74 



TANAGBIDai. 



b. Yellow of anterior half of crown pro- 

 duced and rounded behind. 



Yellow terminating: at nape 23. laniirostris, p. 7G. 



Yellow extending- over nape 24. hypoxantha, p. 77. 



B. External rectrices without any white .... 25. melanura, p. 78. 



20. Euphonia violacea. 



Tanagra violacea, Linn. S. N. i. p. .315 ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 783. 

 Euphonia violacea, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 441 ; Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 671 



Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 86, et 1856, p. 277; id. St/n. Av. Tan 



p. 103; id. Cat. A. B. p. 58; ^^;. Cmisp. i. p. 232; id. Rev. Zool. 



1851, p. 136; id. Note s. I. Tan(/. p. 10 ; Bttrm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 195 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1808, p. 627 (Venezuela) ; iid. Nometicl. 



p. 18 ; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 204 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 208 (Brit, 



Guian.). 

 Phonasca violacea, Cab. J. f. O. 1860, p. 330, et 1861, p. 90. 

 Phonasca brachyptera ?, Cab. J. f. O. 1865, p. 410 (?). 

 Euphone violacea, var. minor, Licht. Doubl. p. 29. 

 Phonasca hchtensteini. Cab. J.f. O. 1860, p. 331, 1861, p. 90. 

 Euphonia Hchtensteini, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 204. 

 Euphonia purpurea, i««CT'. Ann. L. N.Y. viii. p. 466 (1867); cf. 



Scl. Ibis, 1885, p. 272. 



Above dark shining violaceous blue ; front of head to a line with 

 the eyes orange-yellow : below orange-yellow, rather paler on the 

 belly ; tail beneath black, with white patches on the two external 

 rectrices ; under surface of wings black, with a large white patch 

 occupying the inner webs of the wing-feathers ; bill and feet black : 

 whole length 3"7 inches, wing 2-3, tail IS. Female. Above olive- 

 greeia, below yellowish olive ; inner webs of wing-feathers at their 

 bases white. 



Hah. Guiana, Trinidad, Lower Amazonia, and S.E. Brazil. 



The S.E. Brazilian form (subsp. licJitcnsteini) is rather larger in 

 dimensions, but similar in plumage. 



a. Subsp. typica. 



a. c? fid. St. British Guiana (Schoni- R. Geogr. Soc. [P.]. 



hirgh) . 



b, c. S <id. sk. ; Roraima, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 d. 5 ad. sk. ( Whitely). 



e,f. (5 $ ad, sk. Eoraima, Brit. Guiana Sclater Coll. 



( Whitely). 



g, h. (S 5 ad. sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitely). 



hj- 6 2 ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Cayenne. J. Gould, Esq. 



I. 2 ad. sk. Cayenne. Purchased. 



m. 2 ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 



b. Subsp. licJitensteini. 



a, 6. c? 2 ad. sk. Pernambuco, Brazil ( TT^. v4. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Fo7-bes). 



