AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES Published by Number 1367 the AMERICAN MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY November 18, 1947 NEW YORK CITY
AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES Published by Number 1367 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY November 18, 1947 NEW YORK CITY STUDIES OF PERUVIAN BIRDS. NO. 52 THE GENERA SERICOSSYPHA, CHLOROSPINGUS, CNEMOSCOPUS, HEMISPINGUS, CONOTHRA UPIS, CHLORORNIS, LAMPROSPIZA, CISSOPIS, AND SCHISTOCHLAMYS BY JOHN T. ZIMMER I am again greatly indebted to Mr. are said to be like those of the chatterers Emmet R. Blake of the Chicago Natu- (Cotingidae), and several authors have ral History Museum; Messrs. James suggested its position in that family, which Bond and Rodolphe de Schauensee of the the "nine-primaried" wing will not permit. Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- Its general appearance also is cotingine, delphia; Dr. Herbert Friedmann of the which may be taken as an expression of the United States National Museum; Mr. extreme variability of the tanager family. William H. Phelps of Caracas, Venezuela; The scutellation of the tarsi is unusual and Mr. W. E. C. Todd of the Carnegie since there are prominent quadrate scales Museum, Pittsburgh, for the loan of on the outside of the distal portion of the critical specimens and notes on material planti-tarsi, sometimes halfway towards in the various institutions, which have the heel, a condition I have not seen in been very helpful in the studies presented other tanagers. The nostrils are rounded herewith. and non-operculate, and the rictal bristles Names of colors are capitalized when are weak. Some of these features show direct comparison has been made with resemblance to the characters of the Icter- Ridgway's "Color standards and color idae, but the general shape of the bill is far nomenclature." from typically icterine, although certain genera like Oreopsar and Gnorimopsar show a degree of similarity.
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