249 BIRDS. 
Pursarura, Vieill. 
The ridge of the bill arcuated as in Edolius, but the bill itself is one 
half shorter than the head. 
The species known (Ph. flavirostris), Vieill. Gal. 74; Tem. Col. 
118; Ph. cristata, Goains. Zool. Ill. pl. 31, is from Brazil. The 
tail is much forked; the plumage is spotted with black and yellow; 
the feathers of the head with red, recalling to our minds certain Ty- 
rants and Fly-catchers. 
Tanaara, Lin. 
The Tanagers have a conical bill, triangular at its base, slightly arcuated 
at its ridge, emarginate near the end; wings and flight short. They re- 
semble the finches in habits, and feed on grain as well as on berries and 
insects. The greater number become remarkable in museums from their 
bright colours. We subdivide them as follows*: 
BuLiFincn Tanacers. 
A short bill, when viewed vertically, shewing an enlargement on each 
side of its base; the tail proportionably shorter +. 
GROSSBEAK TANAGERS. 
The bill conical, thick, convex, as broad as it is high, the back of the 
upper mandible rounded f. 
Tanacers, properly so called. 
A conical bill, shorter than the head, as broad as it is high, the upper 
mandible arcuated, somewhat pointed §. 
Enl. 603.—The Drongolon, Vaill. 1V. 171.—The Drongo bronzé, Id. 176, and several 
mew species. 
N.B. The Bec-de-fer of Vaill. Afric. 79, from which [liger has made his genus 
Sparactes, and which is copied in Vieill. Gal., pl. cxli, having been examined by 
Temminck, is found to be a Pogonias, to which other feet had been added, together 
with a crest. This was done by a dealer, in joke, to impose upon the late M. Raie 
de Breukelewaerd, a rich Dutch amateur. 
* For this genus, and those of Pipra and Todus, see the work of M. Desmarest 
and of Miss Pauline de Courcelles, now Madame Knip. 
{ Tanag. violacea, En]. 114, 1, 2.—T. cayennensis, Ib. 3.—Pipra musica, Enl. $09, |. 
—Tan. diademata, Natterer, Col. 243, or Lindo bleu of Azz., or Bouvreuil azuré, Vieill. 
Gal. 54.—The Lindo bleu doré of Azz. (Tan. chrysogaster,Cuv.).— Tan. viridis, Vieill. 
Col. 36, 3. 
$ Tan. magna, Enl. 205.—TVan. atra, Enl. 714, 2.—Coracias cayennensis, Enl. 616. 
—Tan. flammiceps, Pr. Max. Col. 177.—Tan. superciliosa, Spix, 57, 1—Tan. psitta- 
eina, Ib. 2.— Tan. atricollis, 1d. 56, 2. It is on this division that Vieillot has found- 
ed his genus Hasia. 
§ Tan. talao, Enl. 127, 2.—tricolor, Enl. 33.—meaicana, Enl. 290, 2,and 155, 1.— 
gyrola, Enl. 133, 2.—Cayana, Enl. 201, 2, and 290, 1.—episcopus, Enl. 178.— 
ceelestis, Spix, 55, 1.—varia, Desm. (Motacilla velia, L.), Enl. 669, 3, of which the 7. 
Schrankii, Spix, 51, is probably the young.—7’. punctata and siaca, Enl. 133, L.— 
T. multicolor, Vieill. Gal. 76, or Fring. zena, L. Catesby, I, 42.—T. thoracica, Tem. 
Col. 42, 1.—T. citrinella, Ib. 2.—T. vittata, Ib. 48.—T. penicillata, Spix, 49.—T. 
auricapilla, 1d. 52.—T. vittata, T. Col. 48.—T. leucoptera, or Oriolus leucopterus, Lath, 
Syn. 
