. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . moky Tanager (Pityhia fiiHginnsus).Black, the whole excepting the sides of head, throat,and breast , these parts being more sooty or dead black; -under wing-coverte white; bill orange; f««itblack. Female not quite so bright, the throat andbreast scarcely more intensely black than the reet ofthe brders on busby and sunny opening^, andthat is all that I can discover res])ccting its wild has been exhibited at the London Zoological Gardens. Before pussing on to the true FringiUi<ieas well to note that Professor Robert Ridgway referssome of th
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . moky Tanager (Pityhia fiiHginnsus).Black, the whole excepting the sides of head, throat,and breast , these parts being more sooty or dead black; -under wing-coverte white; bill orange; f««itblack. Female not quite so bright, the throat andbreast scarcely more intensely black than the reet ofthe brders on busby and sunny opening^, andthat is all that I can discover res])ccting its wild has been exhibited at the London Zoological Gardens. Before pussing on to the true FringiUi<ieas well to note that Professor Robert Ridgway referssome of the preceding genera to that family—viz.,Diuropix, Saltafnr, and Pitylua. He writes (Birdsof North and Middle America, Vol. I., pp. 24-5) asfollows :— TIm group most closely related to the FringiUid(Zis, of course, that called Tanagridm, or at least oertair». m0:^C ^m that this birdin the members of the latter, which possibly is, even alter tneabove-mentioned eliminations, too comprehensive, andtherefore may require still further restriction. As com-m<;nly and accepted, the two supposedfamilies arc clearly purely artificial, and the arbitraryline that has usually Ijeen drawn between them is mani-festly far out of place, the Tanwjrida: having beenmade to iiu hide fdrms (those mentioned above*) whichare unquestionably Fringilline in their relationships. His f<X)tnoto rather detracts fi-om the force of theabove observations: I should have thought Saltalorone of the most palpably Fringilline of the genera placedin the Tanagridrr : the manner in which it husks andcats seed is essentially Finch-like. In Vol. II., under the family Tanagr{da;,\hh auUiorsays (p. 1) :—^I am very doubtful as to whether the • The only reasonable doubt pertains to ♦h< genera Pitylusnnd Saltatnr. FINCHES. 91 fruit eatinj; Fii/ihuiiiir (gfiKTa
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