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GRAND TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra magna.) 



TA. Jusco-olivacea, fronte genisque cceruleis, striga maxittnri 



nigra, gula crissoque rubris, superciliis maculaque gulce albis. 

 Olive-brown Tanager, with the forehead and cheeks blue; stripe 



near the jaw black; throat and vent red; supercilia and spot 



on the throat white. 

 Tanagra magna. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 8QO. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



422. 8. 



Le grand Tangara. Eiiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 23g. pi. 11. 

 Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne. Buff. PL Enl. 30. 5. 

 Grand Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 220. 



THE Grand Tanager is eight inches and a half 

 in length, and is about the size of the Song Thrush 

 in appearance : its beak is stout and brown : the 

 upper parts of its body are oln r e brown : forehead 

 and cheeks blue ; line from the gape to the sides 

 of the neck black: eyebrows white : throat, thighs, 

 and vent, red, with a white spot in the middle of 

 the former ; rest of the under parts pale red : 

 quills and tail the same as the upper parts of the 

 body, with the edges of the feathers palest: legs 

 blueish. This bird frequents the thick woods of 

 Guiana, Cayenne, and other parts, of South Ame- 

 rica: both sexes are generally observed together: 

 they are called Olive birds, and feed upon small 

 insects and fruits. 



