70 Descriptions of Two New /Species of Birds. 



D. 12 ; P. 23 ; C. 8. La vessie natatoire est comme celle clu Paradiodon 

 hystrix; la rate est arrondie, de meme que la vesicule clu fiel, laquelle est 

 jauuatre. 



Variete : — On trouvede plus quelquefoisune tache grande, noire, arron- 

 die, en arriere de la machoire iuferieure. 



L'espece est assez commune. C'est le No. 109 de mon 

 Ichthyologie MS. de Cuba. 



VII. — Descriptions of Two New Species of Birds of the 

 Families Tanagridce and Tyrannidce. 



BY GEO. N. LAWRENCE. 



i 

 Read November 16, 1ST4. 



Phsemcothraupis cristata. 



Male. Upper plumage of a deep dull vinous color; the front, sides of 

 the head, breast, and under tail coverts of a rather dull crimson; the 

 throat bright scarlet; sides and lower part of abdomen dusky; the crest, 

 which is much elongated and recurved, is bright scarlet; quills smoky- 

 black with their outer margins the color of the back; tail feathers deep 

 vinous red, the central ones and outer webs of the others brighter in 

 color; bill black; tarsi and toes dark brown. 



Length about 8 in.; wing -i ; tail 3^ ; tarsi 1; bill |; from base of bill 

 to end of crest 1 9-16 inches. 



Habitat. New Granada, Bogota. 



Remarks. I found the single specimen described above, 

 in a collection of birds from Bogota. 



It differs from all others of the genus in having a conspic- 

 uous and well developed crest ; in its allies the crest is partly 

 concealed. In general appearance otherwise, it is most like, 

 and is of about the same size as P. fuscicauda, but differs in 

 the throat being of a deeper color than in that species, and 



