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TANAGRIUJ.. 



4. HYPOPH^A. 



Type. 



Ypophsea, Bp. Ann. Sc. Nat ser. 4, vol. i. p. 127 



(1854) C^'o type given.) 



HypophiBa, Cab. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 91 H. chalybea. 



Structure of Ht/pophaa. 



The longer tail and thickened and swoUen bill, which shows no 

 traces of dentations in its upper mandible, may allow us to keep the 

 Tanaqra chah/bea of Mikan separate from the other Euphonias, as 

 proposed by Bonaparte and Cabanis. 



The home of Hypo])hcm is in the southern portion of the great 

 Brazilian wood-region in the provinces of Sao Paulo, Sta. Catharina, 

 and Rio Grande do Sul. 



1. Hypophaea chalybea. 



Tanagra chalybea, Mikan, Fauti. et Flor. Bras. tab. 3. fig. 1 c? , 2 $ 



(1820). 

 Euphonia asnea, Sund. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 18.34, p. 309, pi. 11. f. 4; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 233; id. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 136 ; id. Note s. I. Tang. p. 11, 

 Tanagi'a (Euphonia) pardalotes, Less. Echo d. M. S. 1844, p. 31. 

 Euphonia chalvbea, Sclafer, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 85 ; id. P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 276 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 102 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 58 ; Bunu. Syst. 



Ueb. iii. p. 194 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 204 ; Scl. et Salv. Nojnencl. p. 18. 

 Phonasca chalybea, Cab. J.f. O. 1860, p. 330. 

 Hypophasa chalybea, Cab. j.f. O. 1861, p. 91. 



Above dark bronzy bluish green ; front yellow : beneath yellow ; 

 upper part of throat green like the back ; under surfaces of wings 

 and tail dark ashy ; under wing-coverts white ; bill dark plumbeous ; 

 eet: brown whole length 5 inches, wing 2-6, tail 1-6. Female. 

 Above olive ; front, rump, and margins of wings and tail rather 



