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UR Editor has asked me to write an article 

 on my Gold and Green Tanager, who 

 forms the subject of the coloured plate 

 in this month's mao:azine. 



I came across him quite by accident 

 He was among a number of 



in the summer of 1902 

 Tanagers, mostly Superbs, which had just arrived ; 

 they were all in verj^ bad condition, and he especially 

 was very bare and dirt}^ but he seemed healthy, so I 

 bought him and took him home. I have always been 

 very glad I did so, for he bathed vigorously at the 

 first opportunity and started moulting, and got into 

 fair condition in quite a record time. I was unable to 

 identify him when I first had him, so I called him the 

 " Gold and Green Tanager," but I afterwards found 

 out from the British Museum that he was the Yellow 

 Tanager (^Calliste flava). 



There is no need for me to describe the colouring 

 of the male, as Mr. Goodchild has provided us with 

 such a beautiful portrait of him, but I may say that 

 he has slightly altered since I first had him, having 

 assumed a tinge of chestnut with the yellow on the 

 flanks and a bluer shade on the wings, so I think he 

 must have been immature when I purchased him. 

 The female is thus described in the British Museum 

 Catalogue : " Greenish fulvous; wings and tail black, 

 edged with greenish ; below paler, middle of throat 



