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Corrientes, Argentina); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 37; Oat. Am. Birds 1862, 

 84 (Cayenne; Trinidad); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 206 (Costa Rica; 

 Veragua; Panama; Medellin, Remedioa, and Bogota, Colombia; Caracas, 

 Venezuela; Trinidad; Tobago; Cayenne; Bartica Grove, British Guiana; 

 Pard, lower Amazon; Baiao, Rio Tocantins; Pernambuco; Bahia; Bio Claro, 

 prov. Goiaz; Bio Paranit). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 331 

 (Panama R. R.). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 351 

 (Panama R. R.); 1867, 571 (Pard); 1868, 167 (Venezuela); 1876, 16 (Mar- 

 anura, Huiro, and Protrero, s. Peru) ; 1879, 503, pi. 42, flg. 5 (Antioquia, 

 Colombia; egg figured). — Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 82 (Trinidad). — Finsch, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 582 (Trinidad).— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 212.— 

 Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 327 (Colombia).— La yard. Ibis, 1873, 379 (ParA).— 

 Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 333 (Parahyba, etc., n. e. Brazil). — Taczanowski, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lend., 1882, 15 (n. e. Peru); Orn. du Perou, ii, 1885, 504.— Zele- 

 DON, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 7; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 

 110 (Brazil). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 309.— 

 Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 292 (Bucaramanga, Colombia); 1887,7 

 (Lambar6, Paraguay; crit. ), 115 (Paraguay). — Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 211 (British 

 Guiana).— Kidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 173 (Trinidad).— Kerb, 

 Ibis, 1892, 124 (lower Pilcomayo, Argentina). — Robinson, Flying Trip to 

 Tropics, 1895, 161 (Guaduas, Colombia); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 

 677 (Margarita I., Venezuela). — Ihering, Aves do Est. S. Paulo, 1899, 152. 



T[achyphonus\ melaleucus Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., 1868, 68. 



[Tachyphonusi melaleucus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 23. 



[Oriolus] leucopterus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 392, part. 



Tachyphonvs leucopterus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 358; 

 Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 803; Gal. Ois., 1834, 113, pi. 82.— D'Orbigny, Voy. 

 Am^r. M^rid., Ois., 1839, 277. 



[Pyrroict] leucoptera Bohapakie, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 238. 



T[achyphonus'\ leucopterus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 365. 



Tanagra nigerrima Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 899 (based on Tangara noir, 

 d'Amerique Buffon, PI. Enl., pi. 179, fig. 2). — Dbsmarest, Hist. Nat. Tang., 

 1805, pis. 45, 46.— Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iii, 1830, 534. 



T\_achyphonus'] nigerrima D'Orbigny and Lapeesnaye, Mag. de Zool., 1837 

 (Synop. Av., p. 29; Corrientes, Argentina). 



Tachyphonus nigerrimus Swainson, Quart. Journ. Sci., 1826, 62. — Cabanis, in 

 Schomburgk's Reise Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 669. — Burmeisteu, Syst. Ueb. 

 Th. Braa., iii, 1856, 166.— Eulbr, Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 408 (descr. eggs). 



T[achyphorms} nigerrimus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 22 (Brazil; Guiana). 



Fyrrota valeryi Verreaux (J. and E.), Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vii, 1855, 351 

 (I'Amerique Centrale; coll. Paris Mus.). 



Tachyphonus valerii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 114. 



Tachyphonus beauperthuyi Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxii, 1851, 82 (Vene- 

 zuela). -^Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 85 (Venezuela). — Lbotaud, Ois., 

 Trinidad, 1866, 299. 



TACHYPHONUS LUCTUOSUS Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny. 



WHITE-SHOULDERED TAUAGER. 



Adult male. — Uniform deep black; lesser and middle wing-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts, and axillars, pure white, the middle coverts 

 unusually developed, covering much the greater portion of greater 

 coverts; bill black, with a light bluish-gray or whitish wedge-shaped 



