93. CORYPHOSPINGUS. 803 



Key to the Species. 



a. With a brilliant scarlet crown, blackish on the sides. 

 a'. Back ruddy brown ; lower back and rump dull 



crimson ; under surface of body crimson .... cristatus tf , p. 803. 

 b'. Back entirely grey ; under surface of body 



white pileatus <? , p. 804. 



b. With no scarlet crest ; head brown. 



c'. Lower back and rump dull crimson cristatus 2 > P- 804. 



d'. Lower back and rump ashy grey pileatus £ , p. 805. 



1. Coryphospingus cristatus. 



Moineau de Cayenne, Daubent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 181. fig-. 1. 

 Le Friquet huppe, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 496 (1775). 

 Fringilla cucullata, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat., Anhang, p. 166 (1776); 



Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 255. 

 Black-faced Finch, Lath. Gen. Sy?i. ii. pt. i. p. 253 (1783). 

 Fringilla cristata, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 926 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 197 (1817). 

 Araguira, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 499, no. 136 (1802). 

 Fringilla araguira, Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. xxviii.* (1805). 

 Tachyphonus rubescens, Swains, (ubi p) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 365 



(1844) ; Hartl. Lid. Azara, p. 9 (1847). 

 Emberiza araguira, D'Orb. 8f Lafr. Syn. Av. p. 81 (1837). 

 Lophospiza cristata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 470 (1850). 

 Coryphospingus cristatus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 145 (1850) ; 



Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 213 (1856) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 276 ; 



id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 109 (1862); Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 228 (1871) ; 



Scl. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr.y. 30 (1873) ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 350 ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 16 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 23 ; Salv. Ibis, 1880, pp. 352, 354, 1885, p. 216 ; Wliite, P. Z. S. 



1882, p. 598; Tacz. Orn. Perm, iii. p. 28 (1886). 

 Tiaria cristatus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 45 (1854). 

 Passerina cucullata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7446 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dark vinous-brown, brighter 

 vinous-red on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts dusky brown, edged with vinaceous like the back ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, the latter faintly 

 edged with vinaceous ; tail-feathers blackish, with faint vinaceous 

 edges ; crown of head crested, rich crimson, bordered across the 

 forehead and along the sides of the crown with black ; occiput, nape, 

 and hind neck vinaceous brown, a little brighter than the back, as 

 also the feathers above the eye and the sides of the crown ; lores 

 dusky, as also the feathers round the eye ; eyelid whitish ; ear- 

 coverts dusky, washed with vinous ; base of cheeks and chin ashy 

 white ; hinder cheeks, throat, and under surface of body deep crimson, 

 a little more vinaceous on the lower abdomen, sides of body, and 

 flanks ; thighs ashy, washed with vinous ; under tail-coverts crimson; 

 under wing-coverts ashy whitish ; edge of wing vinous ; axillaries 

 ashy, tinged with vinous ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge: "bill and feet pale slate-colour, the upper mandible darker; 

 iris wood-brown " (H. Dumford). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-55, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-75. 



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