280 TANAGRID^. 



coverts white ; bill plumbeous, beneath whitish ; feet clear brown : 

 whole length 6-7 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2-7. Young. Above brown; 

 lores and sides of the head rather darker ; below not so clear. 

 Hub. S.E. Brazil. 



a. Ad. St. Brazil. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Bahia. (Wticherer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (i, e. S jr- sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joyner). 



51. CONOTHRAUPIS. 



Type. 



Conothraupis, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 198 C. speculigera. 



I am a little uncertain about the correct position of this Peruvian 

 monotype, but on the whole I think it is best placed next to Diucopis. 

 It is, however, distinguishable by its larger wings, weaker feet, and 

 rather longer and weaker biU. 



1. Conothraupis speculigera. 



Schistochlamys speculigera, Gould, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 69 ; id. Ann. N. 



H.sev. 2, XV. p. 345. 

 Diucopis speculigera, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 68 ; id. Sijfi. Av. Tan. p. 6 ; 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 263 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 26. 

 Conothraupis specidigera, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 198, t. xxi. ; id. Orn. 



Per. ii. p. 546. 



Above shining black, rump greyish ; a- concealed niiehal patch and 

 alar speculum white : below white ; throat and upper breast shining 

 black : under wing-covcrts white ; bill dark plumbeous, whiter 

 below; feet brown : whole length 6 inches, wing 3-1, tail 2-7. 



Hab. Eastern Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Ucayali {Hauxwell). J. Gould, Esq. (Type 



of the species.) 

 6. Ad. sk. Upper Amazons. J. Gould, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Callacate, Peru (Stolzmann). Sclater Coll. 



h PITYLIN^ VALIDIEOSTRES. 



In Saltator and its allies the biU becomes much stronger, but 

 still preserves its conical outline ; the feet are large and strong. But 

 Orchestkus, in its shorter and somewhat swollen bill, shows signs of 

 transition towards Pitylus. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Bill longer ; upper mandible not swollen. 

 a. Bill shorter ; culmen less incurved ; 



tarsi longer 52. Psittospiza, p. 281. 



