

Plate XLI. (Fig. 2.) 



CHLOROPHONIA LONGIPENNIS. 



(LONG-WINGED CHLOEOPHONE). 



Euphonia longipennis . 

 ChloropJionia longipennis 



Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Brux. xxii. p. 156, (1855). 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1855, p. 158; 1856, p. 270; et Cat. Am. Birds, p. 55. 



Clare viridis cervice postica et dorso imo cum oculorum ambitu cceruleis, interscapulio eodem colore lavato : 

 abdomine toto laete flavo : rostro nigro, pedibus corylinis : long, tota 4'5, abe 2 55, caudse 1'2. — Fcem. viridis, cervice 

 postica et oculorum ambitu solum cceruleis : abdomine navescenti-viridi. 



Hab. in Nova Granada int. 



The Viscomte Du Bus de Gisignies first characterized the present Tanager in a communi- 

 cation on new Birds made to the Koyal Academy of Sciences of Belgium in 1855. As the 

 describer allows, the bird is very closely allied to G viridis of the South-Eastern wood-region 

 of Brazil, and it is not without some hesitation that we admit the two species as distinct. But 

 G longipennis seems, as M. Du Bus has pointed out, to be smaller in size, brighter in colouring, 

 and to have the wings proportionately longer than the allied species. In the adult G. viridis 

 also, the whole back is of a nearly uniform blue, whereas in G. longipennis a green tinge pervades 

 the space between the shoulders, even in the most adult specimens we have met with. 



M. Du Bus gives Antioquia in the Cauca valley, in New Granada, as the habitat of 

 G longipennis. Specimens in Sclater's collection, from one of which our figure is taken, are 

 of the ordinary Bogota make. 



Apeil, 1868. 



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