I I & \kk. /'•', ." > m arbler. \}.^ 



traordinarx soom fairh constant. Thoy show inoro oloarh in 



specimens than in Parker's figures, especially the position of the 

 raaxillo palatines. Now in both these particulars, Hhodinocicklu 

 is i tanager. The palatine processes are well-developed though 

 not as slender .-is in . nor as spike-like as Parker figures them 



for ! The maxillo-palatines are almost exactly liko those 



Of Pi S both in form and position 



S Some years ago Shufeldt (1888, Ank, vol. 5, p. W2) 



made the statement that true tanagers "have an osseous bridge 

 extending across the top of the manubrium to the anterior margin 

 o( the body o( the sternum." \lc adds that it is absent in /< 

 and in such Fringillidre as he had examined. This seems such a 

 tri\ial character and sv> unlikely to be constant or clearly shown, 

 that 1 was inclined to give little hood to it. Nevertheless 1 made 

 some dissections with the result, surprising to me, of finding this 

 osseous bridge very clearly defined in P and totally wanting 



mDumttrila, m Wo and 5 s I am forced to believe 



therefore that it is a character of no little importance, and it is 

 interesting to find that in iVWo, this osseous bridge is as 



clearly shown as it is in P 



In tho British Museum catalogue (1881), Sharpe 

 calls KicMa the "rose-breasted wren" anil places the genus 



in the Mimime near ?, remarking that it is one of 



several genera which appear to connect tho mocking-thrushes ami 

 the wrens It was not until 1901 that Ridgwaj called attention 

 to the important fact that there are only nine developed primaries 

 in Rkodmocickla and that it must therefore belong in some one of 

 the nino-primariod groups. He placed it finally at tho cad of tho 

 Mniotiltidse with the comment that although it *' is very aberrant 

 member of the Mniotiltidie, 1 do not know where else to place 

 it." When Mr. Bangs placed the alcoholic specimens in my hands. 

 he called my attention to the resemblano - - and sug- 



ed the possibility of l\ "'a being a tanager. Tho o\i- 



e which 1 have presented seems to me to justify the belief 

 that this vealed the probable relation the 



genus. Tho structure of the bony palate and of the sternum aro 

 characteristically tanagrtne, while tho wing and tail - lose 



relationship to ' *. wh '■ has qui ally been 



