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scribed in Vieillot, but it wants the white on the wings. The other is a 

 good deal like the Turdus Plumbeus, as described by the same author. 

 The first is quite common throughout Yucatan, but the second is rather 

 rare. 



Of the genus Loxia were obtained four species, three of which are in 

 immature plumage, and cannot, therefore, be placed with certainty. The 

 other does not appear to have been described, though there are some de- 

 scriptions which come near it. The male is nearly ten inches long ; head 

 and chin, extending down the sides of the neck, and in a crescent across 

 the upper part of the breast, black; cheeks very dark steel gray; a white 

 line extending from the bill over the eye almost to the hind head ; hind head, 

 back, secondaries, outer edge of the primaries, yellow olive ; also the tail ; 

 the shafts of the feathers are black ; part of the chin and throat pure white > 

 breast, belly, and thighs cinereous ; vent, and under the tail coverts, light 

 bay ; bill quite stout, nearly an inch long, and black ; the female is about 

 nine inches long, having dark cinereous brown in place of the olive ; the 

 other markings much the same as the male, but not so vivid. They are 

 very common throughout Yucatan, and said to be very destructive in the 

 fields and gardens : called by the Indians tsapin. 



Of the genus Emberiza one was procured, in immature plumage; prob- 

 ably the painted bunting. 



Of the genus Pipra one : the blue and yellow manakin, not common in 

 Yucatan. 



Of the genus Tanagra were procured two species, one of which is the 

 red-crested tanager of Latham. But one pair was seen. The other is be- 

 lieved to be undescribed. The specimen was a male, six inches and a 

 quarter long ; bill inflated, and strongly toothed ; at about the middle of the 

 upper mandible, six eighths of an inch along the gap, top of the head, 

 wings, and tail, of a deep raspberry, approaching maroon colour; back 

 cinereous, tinged with red; chin and throat bright rose colour; breast and 

 belly light cinereous ; vent and under tail coverts light rosy red. 



Of the genus Fringilla was procured one species, believed to be de- 

 scribed in Latham as the cinereous finch (Fringilla Cinerea) ; they were 

 quite common about Merida in the latter part of May. 



Of the genus Lanius three species were obtained, all of which have been 

 described. They are the Cayenne shrike (L. Cayanus. Ind. Orn., vol. i.,. 

 p. 80), the rusty shrike (L. Rubiginosus), and the gray-headed shrike 

 (Tanagra Guianensis. Ind. Orn., vol. i., p. 427), more properly the Lanius 

 G. This bird sings quite prettily, and is rather common in Yucatan. 

 The other two were rarer, especially the second. 



Of the genus Muscicapa were obtained five species, four of which have 

 been described. The specimen procured of the fifth was a male. It is six 

 inches and a half long ; bill one inch along the gap quite stout and broad ; 

 top of the head and nape black; back, wings, and tail very dark, slaty 



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