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TAN AGE R 



years interested himself, and his latest treatment of them {Cat. 

 Br. Mus. xi. j^p. 49-307) admits the existence of 375 species, which 

 he arranges in 59 genera, forming six subfamilies — Procniatinx, 

 Euphomimi', Tanagrinx, LanijrrotiuR', Phoenicophilinx and Pitylinae. 



These are of very unequal extent, for, 

 Avhile the first of them consists of but 



Peocnias. (Alter Swaiuson.) 



a single species, Procnias tersa, — the 

 position of Avhich may be for several 

 reasons still open to doubt, — the 

 third includes more than 200. Nearly 

 all are birds of small size, the largest barely exceeding a Song- 

 Thrush. Most of them are remarkable for their gaudy colouring, 

 and this is especially the case in those forming the genus called 



EUPHONIA MUSICA. TaNAGEA CYANOPTERA. 



(After Swainson.) 



by Mr. Sclater, as by most other authors, Calliste, a term inad- 

 missible through preoccupation, to which the name of Tanagra 

 of right seems to belong, while that which he names Tanagra 



Theaupis episcopus. 



Rhamphoccelub. 



Tachyphonus cristatus. 



Pyeanqa rubra. 



Cypsnagea ruficollis. 



(After Swainson.) 



Nemosia. 



should probably be known as TJi.raupis.^ The whole Family is 

 almost confined to the Neotropical Region, and there are several 



^ All this appears clearly from what Mr. Sclater himself says in the Introduc- 

 tion (pp. vii. viii. ) to his beautiful Monograph of the genus (London : 1857). 



