80 TANAGRID^. 



27. Euphonia vittata. (Plate X.) 



Euplionia vittata, Scl. F.Z. 8. 1861, p. 129; id. Cat. A. B. p. 58; 

 Scl. et Sale. Nornencl. p. 18. 



Above shining purplish black, with a slight 5ellow bar across the 

 forehead : below, throat and fore neck bluish black ; abdomen deep 

 orange, more yellowish on the sides of the breast and flanks ; tail 

 beneath black, with a small oval white spot on the inner web of 

 the outer feather ; under wing-coverts and inner webs of wing- 

 feathers white : whole length 4-2 inches, wing 2-4, tail 1-4. 



Hah. Brazil. 



I have never yet met with a second specimen of this apparently 

 distinct species, which in general resembles E. rujlventris, but is at 

 once distinguishable by the narrow frontal band and white spots on 

 the outer tail-feathers. 



a. (S sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. (Type of the species.) 



28. Euphonia pectoralis. 



Gold-breasted Manakin, Lath. Gen. Spi. Su])})!. ii. Add. p. 374. 

 Pipra pectoralis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ivii (1801). 

 Euphonia rufiventris, Licht. Douhl. p. 30 ; Max. Beitr. iii. p. 447. 

 Tanagra chlorocyanea, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxii. p. 427 ; Puch. Arch. 



Mus. vii. p. 355. 

 Euphonia pectoralis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 233 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 135 ; 



id. Note s. I. Tanq. p. 10 ; Sclater,Conti:Orn. 1851, p. 87 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 279; id. St/n. Av. Tan. p. 105; id. Cat. A. B. p. 59; 



Burm. Syst. TJeh. iii. p. 196 ; Scl. et Salv. Nornencl. p. 18 ; Pelzeln, 



Orn. Bras. p. 205. 

 Tauagra umbilicalis. Less. Tr. d'Orn. i. p. 460 ( $). 

 Euphonia umbilicalis, Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 233; id. Rev. Zool. 1851, 



p. 400 ; id. Note s. I. Tang. p. 11. 

 Euphone a ventre marron, Vieill. Gal. Ois. Suppl. tab. 



Body above and throat and breast below shining bluish black ; belly 

 dark chestnut ; on each side of the breast a yellow patch ; wings and 

 tail beneath black, under wing-coverts white ; bill black ; feet dark 

 brown : whole length 4-5 inches, wing 2-5, tail 1-5, Female. Above 

 bright olive-green, with a large dark cinereous blotch on the nape ; 

 below, throat and breast cinereous ; sides of the breast and belly 

 olive-green ; crissum clear rufous. 



Hah. "Wood-region of S.E. Brazil. 



The deep chestnut belly renders this species unmistakable. 



a,h. c? 2 ad. sk. S.E. Brazil Sclater Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Novo Eribourgo, Rio de Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Janeiro {Yoiids). 



d. 2 ad. sk. Registro do Sai, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Natterer). 



e. cJ ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sul, Brazil (Joyner). 



f. c? ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 V/, h. S ? ad. sk. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. 



i, j. 6 $ ad. St. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. 



k'. Skel. BrazU. Eyton Coll. 



