order passeres. 311 



The Oriole Tanagers, 



With the bill conical, arched, acute, and nicked at 

 the end. 



The genus Tachyphonus of Vieillot. 



Crested Tanager, Lath. 9. Tanagra Cristata, Lin. 

 PI. Enl. t. 7. 2. Desm. t. 47—49. 



Blackish, crest orange ; throat and rump fulvous ; 

 female, brown beneath ; rump and margin of the quills 

 bright ferrugineous ; bill brown ; base of the lower jaw 

 white. 



Tanagra Martialis, Temm. PI. Enl. 301. 2. Tachy- 

 phonus Desmarestii, Swainson. 



Glossy black; crest and rump fulvous j vent rufous; 

 under wing-coverts snowy. 



Red-necked Tanager, Tanagra JRufcollis, Licht. 



Black, throat chestnut, paler near the chest; belly 

 whitish ; double spot on the wing ; and loins white ; 

 bill and feet black ; six inches long. Is it of this 

 section ? Brazil. 



White-winged Oriole, Lath. 31. Tanagra Nigerrima, 

 Gm. PI. Enl. t. 179. 2 d*. 711. $ . Oriolus Leucop- 

 terus, Gm. O. Melaleucus, Sparmann. Mus. Carls, ii. 

 31. cT. G. Ois.82. 



Black ; wing-spot white ; female, cinnamon-brown ; 

 beneath ashy ; length eight inches. S. America. 



Cuvier has referred Tanagra Olivacea to this section, 

 but it has since been proved to be the young female of 

 T. Rubra. 



Tanagra Speculifera, Temm. PI. Col. 36. 1. 2. 



