454 BLACK-FACED TANAGERr 



CALLED r>ial>le~enrheume by the Creoles : it is 

 five inches in length : its beak and legs are black: 

 the upper parts of the head and the cheeks are 

 blue : the hind part of the head and neck, the 

 upper parts of the back, and the scapulars, are 

 black : the throat, neck, breast, lower part of the 

 back and rump, blue: the upper wing-coverts 

 glossy blue green : the greater ones black, with 

 blue edges : quills black, part edged with green, 

 and the rest with white: the belly, thighs, and 

 vent, yellowish white ; the sides spotted with black 

 and blue, and the thighs with black : tail black : 

 it varies in having the lower part of the back and 

 the rump black; the wing-coverts black, with blue 

 e.dges ; the upper tail-coverts green ; the belly," 

 sides, thighs, and vent, white ; and the quills and 

 tail black, with purplish edges. Both varieties 

 are found at Cayenne and Guiana, and, according 

 to Brisson, in Barbadoes. 



BLACK-FACED TANAGER* 

 (Tanagra melanopis.) 



TA. cinerea, capite anterius colloque toto inferior e nigris. 



Grey Tanager, with the head in front, and the whole of the 



lower part of the neck black. 

 Tanagra melanopis. Lath. Ind. Om. 1. 422. 10. 

 Tanagra atra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 8Q8. 

 Le Camail, ou la Cravatte. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 254. Buf. 



PI. EnL 714. /. 2. 

 Black-faced Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 222. 10. 



