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BRASILIAN RAMPHOPIS. 



brown : the female is destitute of the peculiar 

 formation of the under mandible of the beak, and 

 the colour of her plumage is dull purplish brown, 

 with the under parts reddish, and the wings an4 

 tail brown. 



BRASILIAN RAMPHOPIS, 

 (Ramphopis Brasilia.) 



II A. coccinea, alis caudaque nigris. 



Scarlet Ramphopis, with the wings and tail black. 



Tanagra Brasilia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 314. 2.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 888. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 420. 2. 

 Cardinalis. Briss. 3. 42. 24r.pl, 3.yi 1. 

 Brasilian Tanager. Lath, Gen. Syn, 3. 215. 2. 



The Brasilian Ramphopis is rather larger than 

 the House Sparrow, and is six inches and upwards 

 in length : its beak is black, with the base of the 

 under mandible of a silvery white hue for half its 

 length : the whole of the plumage is of a brilliant 

 crimson, the thighs, which are black, excepted ; 

 the wing-coverts, quills, tail, and legs, are also 

 deep black, but the lesser coverts are mixed with 

 crimson : it varies in having the breast and upper 

 parts of the back marked with greenish crescent- 

 shaped spots, but is the same as the above in other ^ 

 respects. Inhabits Mexico, and many parts of 

 South America. 



