CORYPHOSPINGTTS. 46.5 



Genus COEYPHOSPINGUS Cab. 



GorypTtospinqus .Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 145, 1851. Type C. cucullatus 

 (P. L. S. Mull.). 



Fig. 176. — Coryphospingus cucullatus. 



The 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 

 fifth primaries longest and subequal, nnd the first about equal in 

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

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

 the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : female similar 

 to the male, but much less bright. 



643. Ooryphospingus cucullatus. 



Red-ceestbd Finch. 



Fringilla cucullata P. L. S. Miiller, Syst. Nat. SuppL p. 166, 1776 



(Cayenne). 

 Coryphospingus cristatus ;(Grmel.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 216 (Bartica 



Grove) ; Sharps, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 803, 1888 (Bartica Grove). 

 Coryphospingus cucullatus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Aiiier. i. p. 384, 



no. 3941, 1912 ; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 136, 



1917 (Bartica). 



Adult male. Hind-neck, back, and wings dark chocolate-brown ; 

 inner webs of flight-quills blackish with paler edges ; rump and 

 up[)er tail-coverts dark crimson ; tail feathers sooty-black faintly 

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

 blackish, the feathers minutely edged with vinous ; crest bright 

 silky-red; ^ides of neck and sides of face vinous-brown somewhat 

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

 leathers at the base of the bill and chin grey ; throat, fore-neck, 

 middle of breast, middle of abdomen, and under tail-coverts red 

 becoming dark crimson on the sides of the body ; axillaries white 

 with a tinge of red on the edges of the feathers ,: under wing- 



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