174 TANAGRID^. 



Hah. Guatemala. 



This species is most like 11. luciani, but at once recognizable by 

 the blood-red uropygium and upper tail-covcrts, the rest of the 

 back being dark brownish black. The type specimen is at present 

 unique. 



a. (5' sk. Guatemala. SclaterCoU. (Typeof 



a. urojjygialis, Bp.) 



7. Ehamphoccelus jacapa. 



Taiiagra jacapa, Linn. S. A. i. p. 313; Gm. S. A^. i. p. 888; Lath. 



Ind. Orn. i. p. 419. 

 Rampbocelus pinpureus, Vieill. Enc. Metli. p. 796. 

 Ramphopis atrococcineus, Sw. Orn. Dr. pi. 20 ; Cah. in Schomb. 



Guian. iii. p. 668. 

 Kamphocelus jacapa, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 132 ; i?^j. Consp. i. 



p. 241 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. ] 28 ; id. Syu. Av. Tan. p. 62 ; id. Cat. 



A. B. p. 78 ; Burm. Syst. TJeh. iii. p. 172 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 180 (Ucayali), 1867, pp. 571, 749, 977 (Amazonia), 1869, p. 597 



(S. Peru) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 21 ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 379 (Lower 



Amazonia) ; Tacz. P. Z. *'. 1882, p. 14 (N.E. Peru) ; id. Orn. Per. 



ii. p. 491 ; Tacz. et Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 81 (Ecuador) ; Salv. This, 



1885, p. 210 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Ramphopis jacapa, G7-ay, Gen. B. ii. p. 363. 

 Rampbocelus venezuelensis, Lafr. Pev. Zool. 1853, p. 243 ; Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1856, p. 129 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 53; id. Cat. A. B. p. 79 ; 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 167 (Venezuela). 

 Rampbocelus magnirostris, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1863, p. 243 ; Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1856, p. 129 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 53 ; id. Cat. ^. i?. p. 79 ; 



Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 82 (Trinidad) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 581 



(Trinidad). 

 Rampbocelus unicolor, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 128, 1867, p. 19, 



et 1858, p. 453 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 52 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 79. 

 Red-breasted Tanager, Lath. G. H. vi. p. 2. 

 Tangara pouipre de Cayenne, Daub. PL Enl. 128. 

 Tanagra albirostris, Bodd. Tail. p. 8 (1783). 

 Rampbocele bec-d' argent, Desm. Tang. tabb. 30, 31 . 

 Rampbocelus albirostris, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 210. 

 Rampbocelus atrosericeus, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 211 (part.). 



Dark velvety black, more or less glossed with crimson ; head and 

 neck all round and breast dark crimson, which is brightest on the 

 breast and gradually passes into black on the belly ; under wing- 

 coverts black ; bill black, widened base of lower mandible bluish 

 grey; feet black: whole length 6-5 inches, wing 3-2, tail 2-9. 

 Female. Dark brownish black ; face, rump, and body beneath dark 

 rosy rufous ; bill and feet brown. 



Hah. Guiana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, 

 Upper and Lower Amazonia, and Brazil. 



A more careful study of an extensive series of this Tanager has 

 induced me to sink under one head three geographical forms which 

 I formerly recognized. I cannot even make distinct subspecies of 

 them. A specimen of Natterer's from Goyaz, referred by Heir v. 

 Pelzeln to R. atrosericeus, belongs also, in my opinion, to this 



