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and belly whitish ; sides of throat and breast slightly 

 varied with dark markings ; flanks and crissum ochra- 

 ceous. 



Habitat: S.E. Brazil, from Pernambuco to Rio 

 Grande do Sul. 



In the Ibis, 1881, page 332, Mr. W. A. Forbes, on 

 "Eleven Weeks in N.E. Brazil," says: "This beanti- 

 fnl thongli peculiarly coloured Bird is, perhaps, with 

 the exception of Tanagra cana, the commonest Tana- 

 ger in the provinces I visited. I met with it every- 

 where, from Recife to Garanhuns, and though never 

 seen in numbers, it appears to be fairly abundant. It 

 frequents chiefly gardens or plantations of fruit trees, 

 but I have also seen it in thick forest country. It was 

 abundant in the Garden at Estancia, frequenting the 

 orange trees, Sapotis (^Achras sapota) and other fruit- 

 bearing plants ; and I have also met with it feeding on 

 the flowering shrubs of the virgin forest. It goes 

 about singly or in small companies, and most of the 

 specimens seen are either immature or females. The 

 adult males are usually met with singly, though I 

 have seen three perched close together in the same 

 tree. I failed in my endeavours to bring living speci- 

 mens to England, though I got one as far as St. 

 Vincent." 



In Sclater's " Monograph of the Tanagrine genus 

 Calliste," it says : " Prince Maximilian of Neuvied, 

 who gives excellent descriptions of both sexes of this 

 Tanager in his ' Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte von 

 Brasilien,' first met with it on the Mucuri in the 

 province of Porto Seguro." There, he says, it was not 

 uncommon in the sand}^ bush bordering the sea-shore, 

 and he also noticed its occurrence in many other 

 places. Eike most of the other Tanagers it has no 

 song, but only a short call cry. 



Azara inserts it in his " Apuntamientos " under 



