SPOTTED GREEN TANA(?ER. 455 



THIS, like the Crested Tanager, is found only 

 in the open places of Guiana, where it is very 

 rare : it is in length seven inches : its beak is 

 black, with the base of the under mandible whitish : 

 the front of the head, the cheeks, chin, and fore- 

 part of the neck, black, the colour ending in a 

 point on the breast : the prevailing colour of the 

 plumage is cinereous, with the under parts palest, 

 and the quills and tail darkest : legs dusky : the 

 female has the head and fore-parts brown, where 

 the male is black ; and the plumage is pale yel- 

 lowish ash on the upper parts 5 the under parts 

 are the same, but the colours are much paler. 



SPOTTED GREEN TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra punctata.) 



TA. viridis nigro punctata, subtusjlave scent e-albida. 



Green Tanager spotted with black, beneath yellowish white. 



Tanagra punctata. Lin. Syst. Nat. I. 316. 21. Grnel. Syst, 



Nat. 1. 897-<Briss. Orn. 8. IQ.pl. 4./. 2. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 425. Ip. 



Le Sayacou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 288. 

 Tangara vert tachete. Buff. PL Enl. 133. f. 1. 

 Spotted green Titmouse. Edwards. 262. 

 Spotted green Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 228. 20. 



LENGTH four inches and a half: beak and legs 

 brown : the upper parts of the body green varied 



