444 BLACK-CROWNED TANAGER. 



FOUND in Guiana and Brasil : size of the Hedge 

 Warbler : beak and legs dusky : the top of the 

 head and sides black ; sides of the neck as far as 

 the wings also black : the upper parts of the neck, 

 body, wings, and tail, blueish ash ; the two last 

 darkest : between the beak and eyes a spot of 

 white : all the under parts of the body of a silvery 

 white : the female is destitute of the black mark- 

 ings on the head and neck : the upper parts of 

 her body are blueish ash, and the under dirty 

 white. 



BLACK-CROWNED TANAGER. 

 ( Tanagra raelanictera.) 



TA.ferrugineo-fasca subtus lutea, pileo genisque nigris, alls albo 

 lonvitudinaliter striatis. 



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Rusty brown Tanager, beneath yellowish, with the top of the 

 head and cheeks black, the wings longitudinally striped with 

 white. 



Tanagra melanictera. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 898. Lath. In<L 

 Orn. 1. 423. 12. 



Black-crowned Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 223. 12. 



THE Black-crowned Tanager is thus described 

 by Dr. Latham. " Size of the Common Bunting:, 

 length seven inches and a half: beak of a livid 

 colour ; the sides of the under mandible bent in- 

 wards, and the end of the upper one a trifle mar- 

 gined ; the base furnished with a few hairs : irides: 



