TANAGRINfE. 
with the third and fourth quills the longest. Tail lengthened, broad and nearly equal at the end. Tarsi 
as long as the middle toe and robust. The Toes moderate, with the outer longer than the inner one. 
These strong-billed birds are peculiar to South America. 
b P. grossus (Linn.) Cuv. PI. enl. 154. 
P. canadensis (Linn.) Cuv. PI. enl. 152. f. 2. 
3- P. erythromelas (Gmel.) Cuv. Lath. Syn. pi. 43., Gal. ties Ois. 
*• 5g. 
b P. portoricensis (Daud.) Tr. d’Orn. ii. 29- — Pyrrhula au- 
ranti collis Vieill. Gal. des Ois. t. 55. 
P. cyaneus (Gmel.) Edwards’s Birds, pi. 125-, Vieill. Ois. 
Chant. t. 64. 
h- P. Brissonii (Licht.) — Loxia cserulea var. /3. Gmel. 
7- P. melanocephalus (Swains.) Audub. B. of Amer. pi. 3/3. 
bringill a xanthomaschalis Wagl. Isis, 1831. ; Pitylus guttatus Less. ; 
Ungilla maculata Audub. 
P. ? magnirostris (Pr. Bonap.) Proc. Z. S. 1837-120. 
9* P. atropurpuratus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1838. 224. 
10. P. atro-olivaceus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1338.224. 
11. P . personatus Less. Rev. Zool. 1839- 24. 
12. P. ardesiacus Less. Rev. Zool. 1840. 226. 
13 P. qnatho (Licht.) Cat. Dupl. Berl. Mus. No. 215— P. atro- 
chalyheus Jard. 4 Selby, 111. Orn. P l. 3.; P. erythrorhynchus 
SW U. S P. torridus (Gmel.) D’Orb. & Lafr. - Coccothraustes rufi- 
ventris Vieill. 
15. P. lazulus Less. Rev. Zool. 1842. 174. 
16. P. chrysopeplus (Vigors), Proc. Z. S. 1832. p. 4. 
17. P. chrysogaster Less. Cent. Zool. t. 67 Pitylus dorsigerus 
Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. n. s. t. 44. n - 
18. P. aureoventris D’Orb. & Lafr. Voy. de 1 Amer. Mer. 
t. 49- 
Cissopis Vieill. 
* 
Sill short, thick, with the sides compressed and the culmen moch a rcM toTOrds tte t^, which is 
®®gmated the lateral margins slightly arched, and the gonys - "° S 
tnls basal lateral rounded and exposed. Wings short and rounded, with the third to 
1 '— - ’ Tail lengthened and much graduated. Tarsi moderate, strongly scutellated, 
longest. Tail lengthened and mucli graauaieu. xur** a”?;- 7 ““^"r+Lp daws strand 
longer than the middle toe. Toes strong, the inner one shorter than the outer, the claws 
Moderate, and curved. 
The type of this division is found only in the warmer parts of South America, where they live on the summits of the 
n j gh trees, searching for buds and seeds on which they feed. 
,bC. Leverianus (Shaw), Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pl. GO. — Lanius picatus Lath. ; Corvus Collurio Daud.; Cissopis bicolor Vieill. Gal. des Ois. 
Pf 140. 
UU iuuuucu ..... the fifth quills 
moderate, strongly scutellated, and slightly 
,1 ' ...X J-Uc .L™ o+rmirr 
Lampuotes Swains.-f 
Sia lengthened, rather conic, with the culmen slightly arched to tlxe tip, which is emargjnated, t 
S* , much ““pressed, and the lateral margins arched ; the nostrda baaJ, ” tlmi t 
the 
compressed, and the lateral margins arched; the nostrils basal, "Tl™ the 
r °u.nded. Wings rather lengthened and somewhat pointed with the first quill hardly short. 3 * ‘ 
Se cond, which is the longer Tail moderate, and even at the end. Tarsi shorter than the nuddie toe, 
an< I scutellated. Toes strong, with the lateral ones nearly equal; the claws short, cuive , 
compressed. 
These birds are peculiar to the warmer parts of South America. 
b L. ruficollis (Spix), Swains T. rubrigularis Spix, Av. Bras. 
* Saltator niger Vieill. ? 
• L. albocristata Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843. 132. 
3. L. viridis (Spix), Spix Av. Bras. t. 48. f. 2. — Type of Or- 
thogonys Strickl. (1844). 
Saltator Vieill. J 
lengthened, thick, the culmen elevated at the base, slightly 
the ® ldes compressed, and the lateral margins rather smuated and * c and roun ded, with the 
ttle nostrils basal, small, and partly hid by the frontal plumes, n vngs 
... the following year, Bethylus for the same type. 
Mr. Strickland’s genus Orthogonys (1844) is probably coequal. 
- > „ ao ■ and it is coequal with Mr. Swaingon's Spermagra of 1827- 
icillot established tins division m his Analyse, p. 32. , a i 
* VieUlot established this name in (Analyse, p. 40.) 181(5 ; and Cuvier proposed, hit] 
I established by Mr. Swainson, 1837, in his Classif. of Birds, ii. p. 283. r - 1 rl 
+ U was in 1816 that Vie 
