134 class aves. 



The Sparrows Proper. Pyrgita. Cuv. 



Have the bill a little shorter than the preceding, 

 conical, and only slightly convex towards the point. 



Surinamensis of Brown, III. pi. X. The little Jackdaw of Jamaica, Sloane, 

 Jam. II. 299. pi. 257, 1, cited by Pennant nnAer gracula barita, and qxdscala, 

 is again the same bird. It is also impossible to doubt that Latham had it 

 under his eyes when he was describing his Oriolus Oryzivorus. 



Z. The true black carouge, changing to violet, with bill rather short 

 but very straight, given as a tanager, Enl. 710, and of which the tanagra 

 bonariensis has been made ; but this figure really represents Oriolus minor 

 (le petit troupiale noirj. The bird, figured Enl. 606. fig. 2. is erroneously 

 attributed as a female to this species, but is, in fact, altogether different. 



4. A true troupiale, of a deep black, with violet reflexions, with a sharp 

 bill a little arched, and which hollows the upper part of its tail like a boat. 

 This is the boat-tailed grakle of Pennant and Latham, which these two 

 writers regard as synonimous with gracula barita ; and yet it is certainly the 

 bird of Catesby, pi. 12. of which Linnaeus has made \\\% gracula quisccda ; 

 but Catesby has represented the bill badly. 



5. A black bird, with violet and green reflexions ; with tail somewhat 

 wedged, having the bill'of a troupiale, but more arched towards the end, &c. 



CUVIER. 



The following species, not noticed by our author, have been named 

 elsewhere : — 



Gambia GrossbeaJc. Loxia Melanocephala. Albin. t. 62 



Fringilla Velata, under which name Lichtenstein unites Lox. Melanoce- 

 phala, Lox. Abyssini a, and Oriolus textor. Gm. 



Tanagra capitalis. Lath. Fring. Capitalis. Licht. 



Fringilla Vitellina. Licht. 



Fringilla Luteola. Licht. 



Loxia Macroura. Gm. Fring. Macrocerca. Licht. 



Fringilla laticauda. Licht. 



Bengal grosbeak. Loxia Bengalensis. Lin. PI. Enl. t. SQ'?. f. 2. 



Weaver Bunting. Emberiza Textor. Gm. 



Lichtenstein observes that luring. Phalerata, Orj/.i'. jgnico/or, t^c. should be 

 referred to this genus. 



Ploccus nigerrimm. Vieil. 



