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4. Description of a New Tanager of the genus Euphonta. 

 By Philip Ltjtley Sclater, M. A., F. L. S, etc. 



(Avės, PI. CXXIV.) 



Mr. Gould having placed in my hands for exaniination some spe- 

 cimens of Euphonia, which he has lately received from Guatemala, I 

 am enabled to exhibit to the Society examples of both sexes of what 

 I believe to be a hitherto uncharacterized species of that genus. I 

 am no friend to the too frecįuent practice of calling animals after indi- 

 viduals, but I feel that I shall meet with approbation in this instance 

 if I confer ou the present bird the name of oue of the most eminent 

 naturaUsts of the day, to whom moreover I am indebted for nume- 

 rous acts of kindnes's from the period when I first had the pleasure 

 of his acąuaintance. I therefore propose to call this species 



Euphonia Gouldi. 



<? . Supra olivacea, ceneo induta : pileo usque ad oculos cum fronte 

 Jiavis: subtus, gula et cervice flavescenti-olivaceis, abdomine 

 medialiter castaneo, hoc coJoreflavo utrinque marginato ; late- 

 ribus olivaceis Jlavo mixtis : crisso castaneo : rostro et pedibus 

 nigris. 

 C . Supra mari similis sed dilutior, fronte et pileo antico rubris : 

 subtus flavescens, abdomine medio cum crisso dilute castaneis, 

 luteribus flavido-olivaceis. 

 Long. totą 4-1, alse 2-2, caudse l'O, tarsi 0*7. 

 Hab. In Guatimala et Mesico Meridionali. 



Gould' s Euphonia does not sufficiently resemble any other of the 

 known members of the group to render it liable to be eonfounded 

 with them. It may, I think, be most naturally placed at the head of 

 the section containing Euphonia pectoralis, E. riifiventris and others 

 (which has been denomhiated Iliolopha by Prince Bonaparte), and 

 will serve to connect them with the yellow-headed species which pre- 

 cede them in my arrangement. I have suspected its existence for 

 some time, but these examples are the first good ones I have seen of 

 it. I have had for several years in my possession a bird \vhich I 

 now find to be an immature individual oi' this species ; and M. Salle"s 

 collection comprised a single specimen not in very good condition, 

 which he obtained in Southern Mexico. I gavę a short description 

 of the latter bird vpithout naniing it in my list of his collection (see 

 P. Z. S. 185G, p. 303), but was mistaken (as I novr see) in eonsider- 

 ing it a female. 



This Euphonia is the fourth additional Tanager I have met with 

 since completing the synopsis of these hirds given in the Proceedings 

 for lašt year; the others being Calliste rufigena (P. Z. S. 1856, 

 p. 311), Saltutor melanopterus (Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. viii. p. 361), and 

 Pyranga roseigularis (P. Z. S. 1857, p. 6). The latter bird was 

 long ago described by Dr. Cabot, but at the time of completing my 

 synopsis I had not seen specimens of it. 



