206 TANAGRIB.E. 



(J. f. 0. 1SG7, p. 40S). The nest is placed in thick bushes near the 

 ground, and is open and cup-shaped. The eggs are flesh-colour, 

 marked and spotted with dark reddish. See also a figure of the egg 

 of this species, P. Z. S. 1879, pi. xlii. fig. 5. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



A. Head without a vertical crest. 



a. Head black. 



a'. Rump black. 



a". Bend of wing pure white : 



' larger : lesser wing-coverts 



black 1. 7nelaleiicics, p. 206. 



I smaller : lesser wing-coverts 



( white 2. luctuosus, p. 208. 



b" . Bend of wiug white, with a red 



spot 3. phccniceus, p. 208. 



h' . Rump yellow 4. xanthopi/f/iiis, p. 209. 



b. Head yellow 5. chrijsomelas, p. 210 



B. Head with a median vertical crest. 



c. Lower back pale fulvous. 

 c' . BeUv black. 



c". With a fulvous throat-spot 6. cristatus, p. 210. 



d". Throat uniform black, without any 

 spot; 



j crest fulvous 7. sitrinamus, p. 211. 



I crest orange 8. nattereri, p. 213. 



d' . Belly rufous 9. rujiventris, p. 213. 



d. Lower back black. 

 e' . Under wing-coverts white : 



rest scarlet 10. coronatus, p. 213. 



I crest yellow 11. nitidissimus, p. 214. 



f . Under wing-coverts black . . 12. delattrii, p. 215. 



1. Tachyphonus melaleucus. 



Oriolus melaleucus, Sparnn. 3Ii(s. Carls, no. xxxi. (1787). 



Tangara noir d'Amerique, Daub. PL Enl. 179. fig. 2 {S )■ 



Le Tangaroux de Cavenne, Daub. I'l. Enl. 711 ( $). 



Tanagra rufa, Bodd.'Tabl. d. PI. Enl. p. 44 (1783). 



Oriolus leucopterus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 392 (part.) (1788). 



Tanagra nigerrima, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 81)9; Eesm. Tang. tt. 45, -iC; 

 Max. Beitr. iii. p. 534. 



Tachvphouus leucopterus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxii. p. 358; id. Enc. 

 Mkh. p. 803; id. Gal. Ois. p. 113, pi. S'l ; D'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 277. 



Pyrrota leucoptera, Bp. Consp. i. p. 238. 



Tachypbonus nigerrimus, Sw. Quart. Journ. Sc. 182(5, p. 62 ; Lafr. 

 et d'Orb. Syn. Av. i. p. 29; Cab. in Scliomb. Guian. iii. p. 669; 

 id. Mus. Hein. i.'p. 22; Burin. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 166. 



Tachvphonus melaleucus, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 113 ; id. 8i/n. Av. 

 Tan. p. 37 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 84 ; 8alv. Cat. 8trickl. Coll. p. 194 : 

 Scl. et Salv. P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 351 (Panama), 1867, p. 571 (Lower 

 Amazons), 1868, p. 167 (Yeuezuela), 1876, p. 16 (S. Peru), 1879, 

 p. 503 ( Antioquia) ; iid. Ex. Orn. p. 68; iid. Nvmvnd. p. 23; 

 Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 82 (Trinidad) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 327 



