ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF EUPHONIA, Dzso., 
ALLIED TO £. CHLOROTICA. 
By H. E. STRICKLAND. 

Tae genus Huphonia (so named by Desmarest, but erroneously 
written Euphone by some authors) has been much entangled with 
the genera Calliste and Tanagra, by those who have overlooked its 
true characters. It is, however, a very strongly marked genus of 
the great family Tanagride, and presents no indications of a tran- 
sition into other genera, The remarkable and unique anatomical 
Structure of the intestines, which are wholly devoid of a stomach 
(that organ being represented by a minute tubercle), proves a wide 
Physiological separation from the other Tanagride, The denticu- 
lations of the upper mandible, yarying from two to four in number 
m different species, but neyer, I believe, reduced to unity, afford a 
Convenient external character for determining the genus. 
Thaye before me five species of Huphonia, all of which agree in 
having the throat and upper parts glossy black, the front and lower 
Parts being yellow. From this similarity in plumage, they have 
*en more or less confounded under the specific name of chlorotica, 
Which belongs to one of them. Specimens of all these species occur 
™ Mr. Sclater’s collection and in my own. 
1. EUPHONIA CHALYBEA, Mixan. 
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+, 4gra chalybea, Mikan, Del. Faun. Bras. pl. 3. Euphone enea, Sundevall, in 
ee Acad. Handl. 1833, pl. xi. fig. 4. ——Euphone pardalotus, Lesson, in Ficho 
. Say, 
Ren greenish black above; mandibles tumid; primaries nar- 
wly margined with yellow externally; no white on rectrices ; 
Wing, 3.8, 
Habitat, Brazil. 
Note, 
Prvhtonan recisy has made a new genus of this species from its tumid bill, 
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