298 



TANAGRID.T.. 



Key to the Genera. 



Bill longer ; upper mandible slightly 

 expanded ; feet strong : 



(■ tail moderate, rounded 56. Oreothhaupis, p. 298. 



I tail very long, graduated 57. Cissopis, p. 290. 



Bill sliorter; upper mandible much 

 expanded ; feet weak : 



I bill smaller; commissure smooth 58. Schistochlamys, p. .301. 

 bill larger ; commissure more or 

 less dentated 59. Pitylus, p. 303. 



50. OREOTHEAUPIS. 



Oreotliraupis, Sd. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 80 



Type. 

 0. arremonop? 



Bill and foot of Oreothrcaqm arremmo2}S. 



This well-marked monotj'pe of the Andes of Ecuador in style of 

 plumage and general habit corresponds rather to the members of the 

 genus Arremon. Buttlie bill is altogether different, the upper mandible 

 swelling slightly in the middle and overlapping the under, as in the 

 genus Lanio, though not developed into a decided hook. It is, how- 

 ever, much shorter, broader, and deeper than in the last-named genus, 

 and has more general resemblance to that of some of the Saltatores. 



1. Oreothraupis arremonops. 



Saltator arremonops, Jard. Edinh. N. I'hil. Jom-n. ser. 2, ii. p. 119 



(1855) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 84, pi. xcii. 

 Oreotliraupis arremonops, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 80 ; id. TSi/n. A v. 



Tan. p. 18 ; Sd. et Salv. Nomend. p. 25 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 439. 



Above dark chestnut-brown ; wings and tail blackish, edged with 

 chestnut-brown ; head black, with a brown vertical stripe and two 

 superciliary stripes cinereous : below chestnut, browner on the flanks 



