BLUE TANAGER 



with saffron yellow ; wings tinged with rusty and 

 margined with rufous; lower parts green, with 

 turquoise blue on chin and most of abdomen. 

 Female. Similar but duller. 



Rare. "Nicaragua to Isthmus of Panama." 

 (Ridgway.) "New Culebra, on an open trail." 

 (Hallinan.) 



8. Thraupis cana diaconus Ridgway and Nutting 

 Blue Tanager. Azulejo 



Tanagra cana RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. Amer., 

 II, p. 55, 1902; Thraupis c. cana STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 278. 



Length 153 mm. (6.00 in.); tail 64 mm. 

 (2.50 in.). 



Male. Pale bluish gray, darker and bluer on 

 back and rump; wings and tail bright light 

 blue. Bill black, blue gray below. 



Female. Similar but paler. 



Immature. Colors still duller. 



A medium sized tanager. This and the next 

 species, both common in trees near habitations 

 and in the squares of Panama City, are among 

 the first birds the visitor to the isthmus is likely 

 to notice. Usually seen in pairs. They call to 

 each other in single squeaky notes. Their song 

 is also thin and squeaky, the phrasing not unlike 

 one of the songs of the Redstart, Setophaga 

 ruticilla. 



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