55. OECHESTICtJS, 297 



■white ; bill yellow^; feet black : whole length 5-G inches, wing 3-3, 

 tail 2-5. Female similar, but the whole of the back and upper 

 wing-coverts cinereous. 



Hah. Cayenne and Lower Amazonia. 



a,b. c? $ ad. sk. Cayenne. J. C4ould, Esq. 



c. S ad. sk. Cayenne. Purchased. 



d,e. S 2 fid. sk, Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



55. ORCHESTICUS. „ 



Type. 

 Orchesticus, Cab. Miis. Hein. i. p. 143 (1851) 0. abeillii. 



The singular brown Tanager upon which Cabauis based his genus 

 Orchesticus would at first sight be taken for a female, from its dull 

 brown plumage. But there is no doubt that it is a distinct and 

 rather isolated form, in which the sexes are clad nearly alike. The 

 much rounded culmen and swollen upper mandible of the altogether 

 shorter biU distinguish this Brazilian monotype from Saltator. 



1. Orchesticus abeillii. 



Pyrrhula abeiUei, Less. Hev. Zool. 18o9, p. 40. 



Tauagra occipitalis, Kaft. in Mus. Berol. 



Orchesticus occipitalis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 143. 



Orchesticus abeillii, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 66; id. Syn. Jv. Tan. 



p. 4 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 97 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 220 ; Scl. et Salv. 



Numencl. p. 26. 



Above hazel-brown, back of head plumbescent : front clear rufous ; 

 wings chestnut-red, with the parts of the webs adjoining the shafts 

 blackish ; wing-coverts yellowish rufous ; tail rufous ; beneath 

 nearly uniform ochraceous brown ; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 rufous : bill dark plumbeous, paler below ; feet brown : whole length 

 7*4 inches, wing 3-7, tail 3-5. Female similar, but rather smaller. 



Hab. S.E. Brazil. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



c. (S ad. sk. ; d, e. 2 Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



ad. sk. 



/, ff. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. c? ad.sk.; i,j. $ Pelotas, Eio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godruau Coll. 



ad. sk. (Joyner). 



€. PITYLIX^ TUMIDIEOSTRES. 



In Pltyhis and its allies we have arrived at the extremity of the 

 Tanagrine series, where the strong-billed Finches of the genus 

 Cardinalis and Pheucticus are doubtless not far distant. The bill is 

 very strong and the upper mandible greatly swollen ; but the 

 characteristic terminal notch is always more or less discernible, and 

 the median tooth also occasionally present. 



