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U. 8. P. E. E. EXP. AKD SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY — GENERAL REPORT, 



List of specimens. 



EUPHONIA, Desm. 



Euphonia, Desm. Hiat. Nat. des Tangaras, 1805.— Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, §71. 



Ch. — Bill short, widened or depressed ; the culmen curved ; gonys ascending ; commissure notched at tip, and somewhat 

 serrate. Wings long ; tail short, quadrate. Colors black, blue, and yellowish. 



The bill of Euphonia is mucli shorter than the head, and very hroad at the base. The two 

 or three toothed lobes near the tip of cutting edge of the upper mandible are very distinct. The 

 rictal bristles are very short. The tarsi are much shorter than the middle toe. The tail is very 

 short, the feathers narrow. 



EUPHONIA ELEaANTISSIMA, Gray. 



Pipra elegantissima, Bonap. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1837, 112. 



Euphonia elegantisdma, Gray, Genera, App. 17. — Bonap. Consp. 1850, 232. — Ddbus, Esq. Orn. — Sclater, Cont. 



Orn. 1851, 83.— Ib. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1856, 273. 

 Euphonia coelestis, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, 39. 

 Pipra gaUriculata, Giradd, 16 Sp. Birds Texas, 1841. 



Sp. Ch.— Top of head and a half collar on the neck behind opaque blue. Sides of head and neck, chin, throat, and upper 

 parts generally, steel bluish black. Beneath yellow brownish fulvous, tinged with dark brownish chestnut, especially on the 

 forepart of the breast and towards the tail. Forehead dark chestnut, margined behind by black. Length, 4.70 ; wing 2.75 ; 

 tail, 1.80. 



Hob. — Northern Mexico to Guatemala. California ? 



This is one of the species (Pipra galericulata) described by Mr. Giraud in his " Sixteen New 

 Species of Texas Birds," and the specimen 560 was obtained in the same locality with Mr. 

 Giraud's. It is, however, very probable that the sixteen were actually collected some distance 

 to the south of the Texas border, probably in the southern portion of the State of Tamaulipas. 

 I am informed by Dr. Cooper that the same bird has been captured near San Francisco, and 

 that the specimen is now in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of that city. 



