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Genus CORYPHOSPINGUS C:il.. 



Cori/pliospinrpin Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 14.3, 1851. Tvne C. cucuUutus 

 (P. L. S. Mill I.). 



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Fig. 170. — Coryphosjiingus cucuUatus. 



Tlie species on which this genus was founded is easily recognised 

 by its bright red and black crest. The bill is somewhat slender 

 and pointed. The wing is rounded^ the second, third, fourth, and 

 tilth primaries longest and subequal, ;ind the first about equal in 

 length to the seventh. The tail, which is slightly rounded at the 

 tip, is almost as long as the wing. The tarsus is about two-thirds 

 the length of the exposed culmon. Coloration : female similar 

 to the male, but much less bright. 



G43. Coryphospingus cucuUatus. 

 Red-ckested Finch. 



Frinf/illa ctictiUain P. L. S. Miiller, Syst. Xat. Su}>})l. p. 10G» 1776 



(Cayenne). 

 Conj pliospincjus cristatus (Gmel.) Salvin, Ibis, ISSo, p. 21G (Bartiea 



Grove j ; Shai'])e, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. ]). 803, 1888 (Bartiea (5 rove j. 

 Coryphospingus cucuUatus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 381, 



no. 3941, 1912 ; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 13t7, 



1917 (Bartiea). 



AiliiU male. Hind-neck. l)ack, and wings dark chocolate-brown : 

 inner webs of Hight-quills blackisii with paler edges ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts dark crimson ; tail featiiers sooty-black faintly 

 edged with chocolate-brown ; forehead and sides of the crown 

 hhickish, the feathers minutely edged with vinous ; crest bright 

 .»ilky-re(J ; si<les of neck ant! sides of face vinous-brown somewhat 

 darker in front and below the eye; eye-ring white; the shoit 

 feathers at the base of the bill and ciiin grey ; throat, fore-neck, 

 middle of breast, middle of abdomen, and under tail-eoverts retl 

 l)ecoming dark crimson on the >ides ol' the hoiiy : axillaries white 

 with a linge of red on the edges of the feathers; under wing- 



vul . II. 2 H 



