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different parts of the head and neck; a black list from the bill 
to the nape, over the eyes; crown with a double row of black 
spots ; auricles black ; remiges, quills, and tail, black, bordered 
with reddish ash-colour; abdomen and crissum white, tinged 
with reddish-yellow : bill blue. Five inches and a half long. 
Inhabits Africa. 
Genus 4.—TANAGRA. — Linnaeus. 
Generic Character. —Bill short, strong, triangular at the base, 
carinated above, greatly compressed, and bent at the tip; upper 
mandible notched, and projecting beyond the lower one, edges 
inflected; under mandible straight, gibbous in the middle; nos¬ 
trils basal, lateral, rounded, partly hidden by protruding fea¬ 
thers ; tarsus same length as the middle toe; external toe con¬ 
nected at its base, the internal one free; second and third quills 
longest. 
Tanagra atra. — The Black Tanager. 
Plate XLVII. fig. 3. 
Head and neck black, the other parts dark ash-colour; quills 
and tail of a deeper blue; legs and bill black. Seven inches 
long. Inhabits Guiana. 
Genus 5. — SALTATOR.— 1 ieillot. 
Generic Character. —Bill thick at the base, robust, convex 
above, laterally compressed, and flattened at the sides ; upper 
mandible arcuated, covering the sides of the lower mandible, 
curved, and notched at the point; lower mandible straight, some¬ 
what shorter than the upper one; nostrils basal, small, and 
open ; middle toe united to the base of the exterior one, the in¬ 
terior quite free ; wings of medium length, the first and fourth 
quills longer than the rest. 
Saltator olivaceus. — The Olive Saltator. 
Plate XL 11*, fig. 1. 
Crown, back, and tail, olive-green; cheeks and jugulum slate- 
gray ; chin white, with a black stripe between it and the jugu¬ 
lum ; venter and crissum deep ochre-yellow, approaching to 
fawn-colour; a white list over the eyes; irides orange; bill 
gray, legs dusky-yellow. 
