PÍ7YLUS HUMERALIS.
P I T Y L U S H UMERA L I S ,
(t e l io w ,sh o i;l d e e e d pityltjs).
Lawr. A n n . L . N . T . viii. p. 467.
S u p rà flavo-viridia, pileo cinereo ; lo ris e t reg io n e au ric u la ri n ig ris ; alis eaudaque in tu s n ig ric an tib u s, e s tiis dorso
concoloribus; camp te rio alari flavissimo: su b tù s pallidè cinereus, g u ttu r e n ig ro va rieg ato , v e n tre medio albescente,
crisso flavo : ro s tro su p e rio re nigro, in feriore p lumbeo, ad tomias e t ad apicem n ig ric an te : p edibus n ig ris : long, to tà
6 ‘0, alæ 3 '5 , caudæ 3 '0 , ta rs i 0'8.
H a b . in Nova G ran ad â in t. e t in rep . Æ q u a to ria li ad rip as fl. Nap o .
Mi*. George N. Lawrence, tlie wcll-kno-wn Oraitliologist o f New York, Ras lately described
this remarkable species o f Tanager in a paper on new American birds read before the Lyceum
o f Natural History o f that city on the 18th o f May, 1867. More recently a specimen o f the
same bird, from which oui- figure has heen prepared, has come into Sclatcr’s possession from a
dealer iu Paris. Mr. Lawrence’s example is stated to have been derived from a Bogotá collection,
while Sclatcr’s is labelled as having been received from the Rio Napo. This is not an unusual
range, and the bird may probably inhabit the eastern slopes o f the Andes, drained by the
affluents o f the Orinoco and Upper Amazon.
The present Tanager, though conspicuously different from its nearest allies in colour,
belongs strictly to the section Caryoihraustes o f the genus Piiylus according to Sclatcr’s
arrangement.* The bill is rather longer and the culmen more arched than in P . viridis, the
type o f the genus, with which it othei-wise agrees in structure.
The four species o f this sub-division o f the genus Fitylus now known to us may be
airanged as follows :—
A .—Species v e n tre flavo.
1. r . TIEIDIS.
L o x ia canadensis, Lin n . S.N. i. p . 304 : Buff, PI. En l. 152, f. 2. P ity lu s canadensis. Cab. in Schomb. Gu ian , iii. p.
677. Coccothrausies viridis, Vieill. Enc. M e tb . p. 1017. Caryothrausies viridis, Cab. Mu s. H e in . i. p. 144.
Caryoihraustes cayennensis, Bp . Consp. p . 504 (p a rtim ). P i t y lm pei-sonatus, Less. R. Z. 1839, p. 42. Canada
grosbeak. L a th . Gen. H is t. v. p. 282. P ity lu s viridis, Sel. P.Z.S . 1856, p . 65 : Ca t. Am, B, p. 99 : Scl. c t
Salv. P.Z.S . 1867, p . 572.
Diagn. i l i n o r : ro stro debiliorc ; g u lâ an g u stio re nigrâ.
Hab. Cayenne {B v ffo n ) ; B rit. Gu ian a (Schomburgk) : P a r a (Wa lla ce ).
* P.Z.S . 1856, p. 65, o t Ca t. Am. B . p. 99.
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