BIRDS—SYLYICOLIDAE—TANAGRINAE. 
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List of specimens. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Original 
No. 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
s 
Boqtiillo, N. Leon, Mex. 
April —, 1853 
Lt. Couch.. ... 
144 
5.25 
7.25 
2.50 
Eyes brown; bill black; feet red 
dish slate. 
SETOPHAGA MINIATA, Swainson. 
Setophaga miniala, Swainson, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 368. — Ib. Anim. in Menag. (2j centenaries,) 1838, 293. (Not 
of Lafresnaye.) 
Musci'apa vulnerata, Wagler, Isis, 1831,529. 
Setophaga vainer ala, Gray, Genera.— Bonap. Consp. 1850, 313. — Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1851, 18. 
Setophaga castanea, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, 42. 
Muscicapa derhami, Giraud, Texas Birds, 1841 ; pi. iii, f. 2. 
Sp. Ch.—U pper parts, with head and neck allround, dark plumbeous ; beneath, carmine red. A dark brownish chestnut 
patch on the forehead. Throat tinged with black. Under wing coverts white. Tail ' lack ; the outer two feathers, with the 
outer web, the four outer, with the tips, white. Length about 5.25 ; wing, 2.55 ; tail, 3.05. 
Hab .—Northern Mexico to Guatemala. 
This species is larger though somewhat similar in shape to S. ruticilla, and has a proportionally 
broader tail. The wing is much rounded ; the first quill equal about to the seventh. 
A specimen from Guatemala differs in having the middle tail feathers narrower, (the others 
lost.) The black of the throat is purer and more continuous. The crown is occupied by a sub¬ 
quadrate patch of orange chestnut; the front and sides of the crown quite pure black. The 
size is considerably less. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Whence obtained. 
Collected by— 
558 
8021 
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Northern Mexico_ 
S. F. Baird. 
J. G. Bell. 
Guatemala __ 
J. Gould. 
Sub-Family TANAGRINAE. 
The precise position of the tanagers is a matter of much uncertainty, the relationship to the 
Fringillidae being very close. Both have the nine primaries and the scutellate tarsi, and the 
bill in some genera resembles that of unquestionable finches ; it is, however, usually longer, 
and though stout at the base is not strictly conical, and lacks the great strength necessary for a 
hard vegetable instead of soft animal diet, or one of berries and fruits. 
Of the large number of known tanagers hut two genera are found in the United States— 
Pyranga and Euphonia. These maybe readily distinguished by the large bill, higher than broad 
at the base, with a distinct tooth in the middle of the commissure in Pyranga , and the broad, 
short, depressed bill, with a double notch near the tip, of Euphonia. 
The characters of the genera are chiefly taken from Mr. Sclater’s masterly monograph, as 
more accurately expressing their distinctive features than the examination of the North American 
species alone can furnishi 
