Plate XLI. (Fig. 1.) 



CHLOEOPHONIA FRONTALIS. 



(YELLOW-FBONTED CHLOKOPHONE). 





Euphonia frontalis 

 Chlorophonia frontalis 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 89. 



Sclater, P.Z.S. 1856, p. 270, et Cat. Am. Birds, p. 55. 





Clare viridis, cervice postica oculorum ambitu et dorso postico toto lsete coeruleis : fronte et abdomine toto flavis : 

 rostro nigro, pedibus corylinis : long, tota 4'7, also 2*6, cauda? 1*6. 

 Hab. in Venezuela, pro v. Caracas {Levraud.) 



This Tanager was first described by Sclater in his Synopsis of the genus Euphonia, 

 published in the u Contributions to Ornithology" for 1851, under a MS. name bestowed upon 

 it by Prince Bonaparte. The locality then assigned to it upon the faith of M. Verreaux's label 

 was Ecuador, but its correct " habitat" has since been ascertained to be Venezuela ; examples of 

 it forming part of the large series of birds transmitted by M. Levraud to the Museum of the 

 Jardin des Plantes from the vicinity of Caracas. 



The nearest ally of this species is G. viridis, of the wood-region of South-Eastern Brazil ; 

 from which, however, it may be immediately distinguished by its yellow forehead and green back. 

 We regret to say that the female is unknown to us, but we may conjecture that it nearly 

 resembles that of the ally above-mentioned. 



Our figure of this Tanager is taken from the specimen in Sclater's collection, which formed 

 the type of his original description. Besides those at Paris, others are in the Berlin Museum, 

 and in the fine collection of Herr Ferdinand Heine, of Halberstadt. 





April, 1868. 



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