TANAGRA. 277 
Lanagra has a more feeble bill than Buthraupis, the culmen rather strongly curved, 
and the gonys but slightly ascending ; the nostrils are round and open, situated at the 
end of the nasal fossa; the wings are long, and the tarsi short, in accordance with the 
insessorial habits of all the species. In general coloration olive and blue are the chief 
colours in the Central-American species; but the most brightly coloured birds are in 
South America, orange and red appearing in the plumage of 7. striata. 
1. Tanagra cana. 
Tanagra cana, Sw. Orn. Draw. t. 37'; Scl. P. Z.S. 1856, p. 282°; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 29°; 
Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 141*; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. vii. p. 297°; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 500°; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 1887. 
Tanagra (Aglaia) diaconus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 175°. 
Tanagra diaconus, Scl. P. Z. 8S. 1856, pp. 142°, 233", 303" ; 1859, p. 864°; 1864, p. 173”; 
Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 16"; 1860, p. 83%; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 350°; 1870, p. 886"; 
Moore, P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 59; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 111”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. 
p. 175; ix. p. 99°"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 188°; 1870, p. 187”; Ibis, 1872, p. 316” ; 
Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p. 550”; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 298”. 
Thraupis diaconus, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 330. 
Tanagra episcopus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 116 *. 
Cerulescenti-cana, dorso toto obscuriore, uropygio vix cerulescente ; alis caudaque fusco-nigris, ceeruleo limbatis, 
humeris et tectricibus alarum minoribus letissime ceruleis, subalaribus albis; rostro et pedibus obscure 
plumbeis. Long. tota 6-0, ale 3°4, caude 2°5, rostri a rictu 0:6, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. maris ex Lanquin, 
Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari omnino similis. 
Hab. Mexico (White '*), Hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast *°, le Strange), Cordova 
(Sallé), Jalapa (de Oca'?); Britiso Honpuras, Belize (Leyland 18, Blanca- 
neaux); GuatEMALA (Velasquez de Leon?*, Constancia’ 4), Peten (Leyland 18), 
Yzabal, Cahabon, Lanquin, Choctum, Yaxcabnal, Duefias!°, Escuintla, Santa 
Lucia Cosamalguapa, Retalhuleu (0. S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras (Ldwards "), 
San Pedro (G. M. Whitely 1"), Omoa (Leyland 18); Nicaracua, Realejo (Lesson §), 
Chontales (Belt 4); Costa Rica (Loffmann?', v. Frantzius*°), San Jose and 
Angostura (Carmiol?!), Tucurriqui (Arcé), Irazu (Rogers), Bebedero Nicoya 
(Arcé), Punta Arenas (0. S.); Panama, Chiriqui (Bridges °), David (Hicks *°), 
Santa Fé 22, Calovevora 23, Chitra 23 (Arcé), Lion-Hill Station (I/‘Leannan > 1), 
Paraiso Station (Hughes), Turbo (Wood*).—CotomB1a?®; Ecuapor; VENEZUELA®; 
TRINIDAD? and Tosago ’. 
Our dissected specimens show that there is no apparent difference between the male 
and female of this species as regards coloration ; but we have several examples in which 
the plumage is of a greener cast, the head of nearly the same colour as the back, and 
the blue of the wings duller in tint. These we take to be birds killed out of the 
breeding-season, or perhaps young birds which have not yet assumed their fully coloured 
plumage. 
