FRINGILLID.E. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Length three inches : pre- 

 vailing colour above olive-grey ; beneath yellowish or 

 paler grey; lower belly plain grey. Supposed by 

 Desmarest to be a young bird. 



GENUS CXXXVIII— NEMOSIA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum conico-convexum, 

 subrobustum, lateribus 

 subcompressis, versus api- 

 cem subemarginatum in- 

 ch natum : mandibula su- 

 perior margines inferioris 

 tegens. 



Cardinalis, Brisson. 



Beak conic-convex, rather ro- 

 bust, with its sides some- 

 what compressed, and in- 

 clined towards its tip : the 

 upper mandibles covering 

 the edffes of the lower. 



Sp. 1 . Ne. gularis. 



Tanagra gularis. Steph. v. -s.. p. 461. Desm. Hist. Nat. Tan. 

 SfC. jil- 12, 13, 14.— South America. 

 Sp. 2. Ne. pileata. 



Tanagra pileata. Steph. v. x. p. 443. Dexm. Hist. Nat. Tan. 

 S^x. pi. 41. — South America. 

 Sp. 3. Ne ? speculifera. 

 Ne. olivaceo-nigra, gidd, collo antice, dorso, uropijgio tectrici- 



busque caudtE injerioribus Jlavis , macula alarum alba. 

 Olive-hlack Nemosia, with the throat, neck in front, back, rump, 



and under tail-coverts yellow, and a white spot on the wings. 

 Tanagra speculifera. Temm. PI. Col. 36.y. 1. 2. 



Inhabits Brasil. Length near five inches : the 

 male has the throat, the fore-part of the neck, the 

 back, the rump, and the under tail-coverts fine yellow ; 

 the head, shoulders, tail, and wings olivaceous-black ; 

 on the last is a kind of speculum or mirror formed 

 by the junction of several white spots. The breast 



