196 TANAGKlDJi. 



Euler has described the nesting of P. ruhica. The structure is 

 cu])-shaped, like that of most Tanagrince. The eggs are of a pale 

 bluish grey, with numerous brown markings. The egg of P. yut- 

 turalis is figured P. Z. S. IST'J pi. slii. fig. 4. 



Key to the impedes. 



A. General plumage rosy red. 



a. With a red median crest slightly extended. 

 a'. Crest bordered on each side by a dis- 

 tinct dark margin. 



a". Throat didl red, scarcely brighter 

 than body below. 

 ) Tail above brighter than back . . 1. ruhica, p. 196. 



] Tail above like back 2. vinncea, p. 197. 



b". Throat brighter red than body below 3. riibicoides,^.^^!. 

 c" . Throat and body below rosy red; 



size smaller 4. rubra, p. 198. 



b'. Crest without anj' distinct dark margin. 



d". Size smaller; wings reddish 5. rliodinolcEma, p. 199. 



f". Size larger; wings more or less cine- 

 reous. 



J Tail below cinereous 6. fuscicauda, p. 199. 



j Tail below tinged with red .... 7. sci/vini, p. 200. 



b. With a distinct prominent red crest .... 8. cnstata, p. 201. 



B. General plumage blackish 9. gutturalis, p. 201. 



1. Phcenicothraupis rubica. 



Saltator rubicus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. p. 107 ; id. Enc. Meth. 



p. 792 (ex Azara) ; d'Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 36. 

 Tanagra tiammiceps, Temm. PI. Col. 177 ; Mnx. Beitr. iii. p. 497. 

 Tanagra porphyrio, Licht. Doubl. p. 31. 

 Pyranga rubica, (VOrb. Voy., Ois. p. 265. 

 Piicenicothraupis rubica. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 24 ; Sclater, A?in. N. H. 



xiv. p. 24 ; id. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 119 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 43 ; id. 



Cat. A. B. p. 82 ; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 212'; Sol. et Salv. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 001 (Bolivia); iid. Nomencl. p. 22; Salv. Cat. Strickl, 



Coll. p. 193. 

 Tachyphonus rubicus, Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 168. 



Above testaceous red ; head brownish cinereous, Avith a scarlet 

 medran crest ; wings brown, edged with testaceous red ; tail nearly 

 uniform testaceous red, brighter than the back ; below testaceous 

 red, nearly uniform, but mixed with cinereous on the belly and 

 flanks ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers 

 rosy red ; biU dark horn-colour, feet pale brown : whole length 

 7''i inches, wing 3'9, tail 3"7. Female. Brown : head darker, with 

 a yellowish-brown median crest slightly indicated ; below paler. 



Hah. Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 



I am not sure whether Bolivian specimens belong to this form or 

 to P. rhodiiwlcema. 



a. cS ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



b. d ad. sk. Sao Paulo, Brazil {Xaffercr). Sclater Coll. 



