FRINGILLIDiE. 



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Pyranga? with the liead scarlet in front; the back, wings, and 

 tail black ; the greater wing-coverts with yellow tips, the se- 

 condaries entirely yellow 3 the tail slightly forked, its feathers 

 edged with whitish. 



Tanagra Ludoviciana. Wils. Amer. Orrt. v. iii. pL 20. f. 1. — 

 Louisiane Tanager. Lath. Geii. Hist, v, v. 10. 



Inhabits the plains of the Missouri : length six 

 inches : beak yellowish horn colour, edges of the 

 upper mandible rugged : fore part of the head, and 

 beyond the eyes light scarlet : back, wings, and tail 

 black : greater wing-coverts tipped with yellow, the 

 next superior row wholly yellowy forming a bar : 

 neck, rump, tail-coverts, and the entire under parts 

 greenish-yellow : tail slightly forked, the edges of the 

 feathers whitish, or very pale : legs light blue. The 

 supposed female, or young bird, has the wings and 

 back brownish. 



GENUS CXUII.— RAMPHOCELUS, Desmarest. 



Rostrum crassum, supra con- 

 vexum, lateratim compres- 

 sum, apice inclinatum ; 

 mandibula inferior trans- 

 versim basi dilatati oculis 

 tenus continua. 



Beak thick, convex abovcy 

 laterally compressed, its tip 

 inclined: the loxoer man- 

 dible with its base dilated 

 transversely, and reaching 

 beyond the eyes. 



Ramphopis, Vieillot. 



Sp. 1. Ra. Jacapa. Desm. Hist. Nat. Temm. 8^c. pi. 30, 31. — 

 Ramphopis Jacapa. Steph. v. x. p. 439. — Inhabits South Ame- 

 rica. 



Sp, 2. Ra. Brasilia. Desm. Hist, Nat. Tan. S^c. pi. 28, 29.— 

 Ramphopis Brasilia. Steph. v. x. p. 439. pL in frontispiece, — 

 Inhabits Brazil. 



