222 TANAGRID^. 



wing-coverts white ; bill black ; feet dark brown : whole length 

 (3 inches, wing 3-2, tail 2-7. Fcnvde similar. 



Nab. Southern Brazil and adjoining districts of Bolivia. 



a,b. S 2 ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil (Dr. Lusch- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 nath). 



c. Ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil ( Wuclierer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Kio, Brazil. Sclater Coll. 

 f. Ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



36. PYERHOCOMA. „ 



Type. 

 Pyrrhocoma, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1-38 (1851) P. ruiiceps. 



This form has a stoutish bill like Tacluiphonvs, but without any 

 trace of a commissural tooth. In coloration it rather approaches 

 Nemosia, and may be conveniently placed next to it. 



1. Pyrrhocoma ruficeps. 



Tachyphomis ruficeps, Strickl. Ann. N. H. xiv. p. 419 (1844) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 237. 

 Pipilopsis ruficeps, Bp. Consp. i. p. 485 ; Des Miirs, Zool. Voy. 



Casteln., Ols. p. 69, pi. 20. fig. 2. _ 

 Nemosia ruficeps, Burm. Si/sf. Ueh. iii. p. 1.59. 

 Pyrrhocoma ruficeps, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 138 ; Sclate?: P. Z. S. 18-56, 



p. 108 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 32 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 88 ; Peh. Orn. 



Bras. p. 216 ; Sab. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 196 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 24. 



Dark cinereous, rather paler below ; whole head and throat 

 chestnut ; front, sides of head, and chin black ; bill plumbeous, 

 lower mandible paler: whole length .5-6 inches, wing 2-6, tail 2-5. 

 Female. Pale cinereous, washed with olive, below lighter ; head and 

 neck fulvous, throat paler. 



Hah. S.E. Brazil. 



a. c? ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



b. d" ad. sk. Rio. Sclater Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 

 e,/. c? ?ad. sk. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. 



(/. d" ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/*. S ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



Brazil {Joyner). 



, 37. NEMOSIA. 



' Type. 



Nemosia, Vieill. Analyse, p. .32 (1810) N. pileata. 



Hemithraupis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 21 (1850j N. ruficapilla. 



In Nemosia, of which the seven species here recognized are dis- 

 tributed over South America from Colombia to Brazil, the com- 

 missural tooth is wholly lost, and the terminal notch is but very 



