253 [Bryant. 



die toe and claw 23 ; claw alone, 61. Head black with two white 

 stripes on each side, a supra-ocular one commencing a short distance 

 from the nostril and an infra-ocular one commencing at the ramus. 

 Hind neck bright golden-orange, forming a very conspicuous nuchal 

 collar. Back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts greenish-olive, 

 brightest towards the tail and with a dusky streak down the shaft of 

 the feathers next the nuchal collar. "Wings dark brown, the smaller 

 coverts next the body of the same color as the back, those next the bend 

 of the wing showing more or less bright ferruginous. Middle coverts 

 bordered with ohvaceous, faded at the tij)S and external border into 

 whitish. Greater coverts bordered externally with white shaded into 

 olive at the base, all the remiges but first bordered with lighter, most 

 conspicuously on the inner secondaries and gradually shaded with dull 

 whitish into olivaceous on the outer secondaries. Tail dark-brown, 

 external borders of the feathers somewhat olivaceous towards the base 

 and the inner web of outer feather, with a scarcely perceptible border 

 of white near the tip. Chin white, continuous with the infra-ocular 

 stripe, and like it with the tips of the feathers black. Upper part of 

 the centre of the throat bright yellow, gradually shaded into deep 

 orange on the fore neck and bordered on each side by a conspicuous 

 black line which nearly meets its fellow opposite the base of the skull 

 and again recedes. Breast yellow shaded abruptly into the orange of 

 the fore neck. Centre of abdomen white, flanks and hypochondriacs 

 greyish-olive obscurely streaked with dusky ; tail and crissum hoary 

 brown, the feathers of the latter broadly bordered with white. Upper 

 mandible black, under mandible bluish horn, as are the tarsi and toes. 



? . Dimensions nearly similar to those of S . Above greenish olive, 

 yellowish towards the tail, and with the centre of the feathers of the 

 head brownish-ash. Wings without any ferruginous on the bend of 

 wing, and the light borders of the feathers more olive than in the male. 

 Tail as in the male. Beneath pale dusky-yellowish with dusky streaks 

 down the centre of the feathers, very much as in Dulus dominie us, 

 Young $ like female, but with traces of chestnut at the bend of 

 wing. 



The species of Tanager generally united under the name of Spin- 

 dalis form two distinct groups, in the fu'st of which the plumage of the 

 female is somewhat like the male and the bill is much stronger than 

 in the second. This is the type of SpindaUs, and contains the species 

 T. nigricephala. In the second the plumage bears no resemblance to 

 that of this male, and the bill is weaker; if the absurd system of forming 

 genera on every little difference is to be adopted this might be called 

 Spizampelis — it contains three species, T. Pretrei, T. zena, and the 

 present bird. 



