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[Euphona] Jamaica Bonapahtb, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 233. 



[Euphonia'] Jamaica Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 18. 



Eluphonia} Jamaica l^EWTON (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 104. 



Ercphonia Jamaica: ScLATER, Jardine's Oontr. Orn., 1851, 91. 



Euphonia jamaicenm Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , 1856, 280 ( monogr. ) ; Synop. 



Av. Tanagr., 1856, 106. 

 [Euphmia'] jamaicensis Cory, ListBirdsW. I., 1885, 11. 

 Pyrrhuphonia Jamaica Bonaparte, Eev. Zool., iii, Mar., 1851, 137. — Sclateh, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 85 (Moneague, Metcalf Parigh, and St. Ann's, 



Jamaica).— Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 113, 130. 

 Euphmia cinerea Lapresnaye, Rev. Zool., ix., Aug., 1846, 277 ("Columbia").— 



Sclater, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 91. 

 Eluphonia} cinerea Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, App., 1849, 17. 

 [Euphona] cinerea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 235. 



Genus BUTHRAUPIS Cabanis. 

 Buthraupis^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 29. (Type, TanagractwuMata Jardme.) 



Large, short-billed, Tanagers, with the plumage chiefly blue and 

 yellow, wing rather long and pointed, and tail much shorter than 

 wing, even, or very slightly rounded. 



Bill short (length of maxilla from nostril not more — usually much 

 less — than half the length of the tarsus), stout (both depth and width at 

 base equal to or exceeding gonys), usually deeper than broad, rapidly 

 tapering to the distinctly uncinate tip ; culmen gently convex, its terminal 

 portion sometimes more strongly curved and produced into a distinct 

 uncinate point, with a distinct tomial notch behind it; gonys about 

 equal to length of maxilla from nostril (or sometimes a little shorter), 

 gently convex, strongly ascending, contracted and strongly ridged 

 terminally; commissure nearly straight or (usually) slightly sinuated. 

 Nostril exposed, nearly circular, occupying most of anterior end of 

 nasal fossae. Rictal bristles rather distinct. "Wing rather long (three 

 and one-half to foixr and one-fourth times as long as tarsus), rather 

 pointed (eighth to fifth primaries longest, ninth longer than third); 

 primaries exceeding secondaries by not more (usually less) than length 

 of tarsus. Tail a little more than half {JB. arcwi and B. cceruleigidans) 

 to nearly five-sixths {B. exim,ia) as long as wing, even or very slightly 

 rounded, the rectrices broad, with rounded tips. Tarsus longer than 

 middle toe with claw; lateral claws reaching to or slightly beyond 

 base of middle claw. 



Coloration. — Uniform dull blue or green above, the remiges and 

 rectrices (except sometimes on margins) blackish, the head also some- 

 times black; chin, throat, and chest black or very dark blue, the 

 remaining underparts yellow, or else yellowish olive with an orange- 

 yellow pectoral patch. 



Rcmge. — Costa Rica to Bolivia, Peru, and western Ecuador, in 

 mountains. 



' "Von /3ov(J zur Bezeichnung der Grosse und Spavnid, nom. prop." 



