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"greater coverts, margins of the outer secondaries, and tips of 

 "the tail feathers white; below wliite ; throat and breast, 

 "descending to a point in the middle of the belly, shining 

 "black; feathers lanceolate; under wing coverts white; bill 

 "and feet black; whole length ii'S", wing 4"8*, tail 6'2 ". 

 "Female similar, but rather smaller. Hab. S.E. Brazil. 



"Only separable from the former by its rather larger size, 

 " and the greater extent of the black on the upper surface." — 

 B. M. Cat. of Birds, Vol. XI. 



Tanagens as a whole are a most gorgeous group 

 of birds, not difficult to keep iu health and condition 

 if suitably catered for; they are however but little 

 known to the mass of foreign bird lovers. According 

 to those ornithologists who have given close study to 

 the classification of species they are a very large 

 family. There are perhaps upwards of 400 different 

 kinds of these birds. * In my small aviary I have the 

 Scarlet, Superb, Olive -green, Tricolotir, Blue and 

 Black, Archbishop, Cuban, Palm, Blue, and Magpie. 

 It is however of the Magpie that I have been asked to 

 contribute a few notes, and of an individual bird. My 

 bird is well-known to many bird lovers owing to its 

 fairly frequent appearance on the Show bench : it is 

 figtired on another page (this line drawing I consider 

 one of Mr. Goodchild's happiest efforts). It came into 

 my possession in December 1903, and had been im- 

 ported the previous year, by, I think, Mr. Frostick, 

 who kept it in an ordinary garden aviary, where it was 

 successfully moulted. This bird is the larger of the 

 two species (C. major) and is so far as I can ascertain 

 a native of S. E. Brazil, Why designated Magpie? 

 The reason is not far to seek, inasmuch as the bird is 

 of black and white plumage, his general appearance 



• There are over 370 kuowu species ol the Family Tanagridce.—'Ev. 



