121 



Since describing this species, I have seen several other specimens 

 of it in the Paris Museum, transmitted from Bogota by M. Fon- 

 tanier in 1853. 



Genus XXI. Lamprotes. 



Lamprotes, Sw. Class. Birds, ii. 283 (1837). 



Sericossypha, Less. Echo d. M. S. 1844, p. 382. 



Rostrum Orthogonydis sed paulo fortius : alce elotigatce, remige 



prima longa et vix breviore quain sequentibus : cauda brevius- 



cula, rotundata : tarsi breves et sicut pedes robustissimi ; 



ungues acutissimi : ptilosis aureo-nitens, marium rubro varie- 



gata, foeminarum unicolor. 



a. Lamprotes. 



1. Lamprotks loricattjs. 



Tanagra loricata, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. p. 31 (1823), (?) ; Bp. 

 Consp. p. 237. 



Saltator niger, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 794 (jun. 1). 



Tanagra rubricollis, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 43. 



Tanagra rubrigularis, Spix, ib. p. 43. 



Lamprotes rubrigularis, Sw. Class. ii. 283. 



Lamprotes rujicollis, Gray, Gen. p. 362. 



Tachyphonus loricatus, Gray, 1. c. 



Tanagra bonariensis, Max. Beitr. iii. 530. 



Lamprotes loricatus, Sclater, Tan. Cat. Sp. p. 8. 



Fulgenti-ater, gutture et jugulo medialiter rubris. ? unicolor 

 atra, gutture concoJore. 



Long. totą 8 "5, alae 4-6, caudse 3'0. 



Hab. Soutb-east Brazil, Bahia {Alax.). 



Mus. Brit., Paris., &c. 



b. Sericossypha. 



2. Lamprotes albicristatus. 



Lamprotes albocristatus, Lafr. R. Z. 1843, p. 132; Lafr. Mag. 

 de Zool. 1844, pi. 50 ; Gray, Gen. p. 362. 



Sericossypha sumptuosa, Less. Echo d. M. S. 1844, p. 382; Less. 

 Descr. d. Mamm. et Ois. p. 354. 



Velutino-ater : alis caudaque ce7ieo fulgentibus : pileo niveo : 

 gutture et jugulo sanguinolente purpureis. 



Long. teta 9"3, alse 5*5, caudse 4*0. 



Hab. New Grenada, Bogota {Lewy) ; S. Martha (Fontanier). 



Mus. Brit., Paris. 



Some examples of this splendid bird have the throat much more 

 red, almost scarlet. I have not yet seen the female, which Mould 

 probably have the throat black. 



Genus XXn. Orthogonys. 

 Orthogom/s, Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. (1844), p. 421, 



