4(50 GREEN TANAGER. 



and likewise in the back being rufescent : there is 

 also a variety described by Buffon, that has the 

 head of a bright blue ; but in other respects it 

 agrees tolerably with the above. 



This species has very little song : it is very 

 common at Cayenne, where it is called Le Dau- 

 phinois : it is said to destroy great quantities of 

 rice, upon which it feeds, as it does also upon 

 bananas and guavas, of which it is particularly 

 fond : like the rest of the genus, they are generally 

 found by pairs, and frequent open and uninhabited 

 places. 



GREEN TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra virens.) 



TA. viridis subtusjlavescens, loris gulaque nigris, fascia maxillari 



ccerulea. 

 Green Tanager. beneath yellowish, with the lores and throat 



black, and stripe near the jaw blue. 

 Tanagra virens. Lin. Syst. Nat. l. 317. 22.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 8(j7.Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 426. 21. 

 Tangara brasiliensis viridis. Briss. Orn. 3. 25. 14. 

 Le Tangara verd du Brasil. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 268. 

 Green Tauager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 229. 22. 



THE Green Tanager is larger than the Domestic 

 Finch, and measures six inches and a quarter in 

 length: the beak is dusky; between which and 

 the eyes is a black spot, bounded on the lower 



