NEW SPECIES OF COCCOTHRAUSTES. 



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dark like the male, but entirely enclosed by a yellow band proceeding from 

 the brows over the eyes and down the neck to the back, where the opposite 

 lines are blended and form yellow margins to the dorsal plumes : a broad 

 dark line from the nostrils through the eyes to the scapulars, which are 

 immaculate. Below this line all the inferior surface is yellow ; but there is 

 a dark line from the gape and another from the lateral angle of the lower 

 jaw, on each side, enclosing an immaculate chin. Below the chin the 

 yellow ground is varied with longitudinal drops of the dark hue of the 

 upper surface, save on the centre of the lower belly, vent, and under tail 

 coverts, which are immaculate yellow as in the male : bill, legs and iris, as 

 in the male, but duller. Size of the male, 9 inches long by 1 5 wide, and 

 3 oz. in weight : female, rather less. 



The young till after the second moult resemble the female, taking the 

 full adult plumage gradually. 



These birds belong to the northern region, whence however they 

 wander into the central, even in summer, in search of ripe stony fruits. 



Their structure is by no means typical, and I have noted them as the 

 type of a new Genus under the revived name of Stohilopliaga. 



Species '^nd — Carnipes. Fleshy-grey footed Finch, nobis. 



Head, neck and breast dusky slaty, striped on the lower half with 

 hoary : upper back, wings and tail dusky ; the first smeared all over, and 

 the two last edged, with greenish yellow : a white speculum on the prima- 

 ries, as in the last : lower back, belly and vent, greenish yellow : under tail 

 coverts the same, dashed with dusky : legs and bill fleshy grey : iris brown. 

 Sexes alike ; size rather less than the last. 

 Genus Corythus ? 



Species \st — C. Sipahi, nobis. Seapoy Corythus, nobis. 



Form : bill less gross sharper, the mandibles nearly equal and nearly 

 intire : culmen and rictus arcuated : a salient tomial angle near the middle 

 of the loiver mandible : sometimes wanting ; wings sl^rter, scarcely exceed- 

 ing the base of the tail : 3 and 4 quills longest and equal. 



