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Highlands of Costa Rica (Rancho Redondo; San Jos6; Birris; Cer- 

 vantes; Candelaria; Navarro; Irazu), Veragua (Chitra; Calovevora; 

 Cordillera del Chucu; Calobre), and Chiriqui (Volcan de Chiriqui). 



Triglyphidia callophrys Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., viii, Sept., 1860, 331 (Oosta Rica; 

 coll. Berlin Mus.). 



Acrocompsa callophrys Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, Jan., 1861, 88. 



Chlorophonia callophrys Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y. , ix, 1868, 98 ( Rancho Redondo, 

 San Jos6, and Birris, Costa Rica) . — Salvadori, Atti Roy. Ac. Sci. Torino, iv, 

 1868, 173 (Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Cervantes 

 and Candelaria, Costa Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 185 

 (Volcan de Chiriqui; Chitra, Cordillera del Chucu, and Calovevora, Vera- 

 gua). — BoucAED, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 54 (Navarro and Candela- 

 ria, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Cent. Am., Aves, i, 1883, 254 

 (Irazii, etc., Costa Rica; Calobre, etc., Veragua). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus.,xi, 1886, 58. — Zelbdon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 109 (San 

 Jos6, Cartago, Alajufela, Rancho Redondo, and Naranjo de Cartago). 



ICMorophonial callophrys Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17. 



Chlorophonia calophrys Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., Dec, 1868, 84, pi. 68 

 (male and female). 



Genus KUPHONIA Desmarest. 



Euphonia Desmarest, Hist. Nat. des Tangaras, 1805, sub pi. 19. (Type, Pipra 



musica Gmelin?) 

 Euphone (emendation) "Cuv[ier], Aves, 1829" (fide Scudder's Nomencl. Zool., 



Univ. Index, p. 120). 

 Euphona (emendation) Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 31. — Bonaparte, Conso. 



Gen. Avium, 1850, 232. 

 Oyanophonia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 2d ser., iii, March, 1851, 138 



(Type, Pipra musica Gmelin.) 

 Acroleptes "Schiff " Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat., s6r. 4, i, 1854, 127. (Type, Tana- 



gra chlorotica Linnaeus?; see Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 90.) 

 Iliolopha Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat., s6r. 4, i, 1854, 127. (Type, Tanagra cayana 



Linnaeus?) 

 Ypophaea "Schiff" Bonaparte, Ann. Sci. Nat., s6r. 4, i, 1854, 127. (Type, Tana- 

 gra chalybea Mikan?) 

 Sypophaea (emendation) Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 91. 

 Phonasca Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 330. (Type, Tanagra violacea Linnaeus.) 



Very small, short-tailed, broad-gaped, frugivorous Tanagers, with 

 the plumage never bright grass green, nor with blue on upper parts, 

 or else with only the pileum and hindneek blue, the remaining upper 

 surface plain dark steel blue, glossy blue-black, or olive-green. 



Bill short (exposed culmen about half as long as tatsus), triangular 

 in vertical profile, but extremely variable as to proportionate length, 

 breadth, and depth, the extremes, connected by intermediate forms, 

 being represented by three types, as follows: (1) Bill very broad and 

 depressed, its width at base equal to length of exposed culmen, its 

 lateral outlines distinctly sinuate (convex basally and concave ter- 

 minally); depth of bill at base equal to only about half its width. 

 {K musica, type of the genus.) (2) Bill slender, almost terete, its 



