944 TANAGER 
years interested himself, and his latest treatment of them (Cat. 
Lr, Mus. xi. pp. 49-307) admits the existence of 375 species, which 
he arranges in 59 genera, forming six subfamilies— Procniatine, 
Euphoniine, Tanagrine, Lamprotine, Phenicophiline and Pityline. 
These are of very unequal extent, for, 
while the first of them consists of but 
a single species, Procnias tersa,—the 
position of which may be for several 
LLY 
Procnias. (After Swainson.) 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 
== 
ye 
EUPHONIA MUSICA. TANAGRA 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 
co) =) 
Li REN 
Eg 
PYRANGA RUBRA. 
CYPSNAGRA RUFICOLLIS. NEMOSIA. 
(After Swainson.) 
should probably be known as TYhraupis.! The whole Family is 
almost confined to the Neotropical Region, and there are several 
1 All this appears clearly from what Mr. Sclater himself says in the Introduc- 
tion (pp. vil. vill.) to his beautiful Monograph of the genus (London; 1857). 
———<— ee 
ee 
