RED-HEADED TANAGER. 46l 



edge with deep blue : head and upper parts of the 

 body bright green : the lesser wing-coverts glossy 

 sea-green, the rest green : the quills dusky, mar- 

 gined with blue : throat pure black : fore-part of 

 the neck yellow : rest of the under parts of the 

 body yellowish green: the two middle tail-feathers 

 green, the rest dusky, edged with blueish : legs 

 brown. Inhabits Mexico, Peru, and Brasil. 



RED-HEADED TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra gularis.) 



TA. nigra, subtus alba, capite rubro,jugulo purpureo. 



Black Tanager, beneath white, with a red head and purple 



jugulum. 

 Tanagra gularis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 3i6. 13.1 Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 894. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 425. 20. 

 Cardinalis Americanus. Briss. Orn. App. Q7.pl. A.f. 4. 

 Le Rouge Cap. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 267. 

 Tangara brun d'Amerique. Buff. PI. Enl. 155. f. 2. 

 Red-headed Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 228. 21. 



THIS beautiful bird has the head, chin, and 

 throat crimson, on the latter sprinkled with pur- 

 ple, and ending in a point near the breast : the 

 upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, which is 

 rounded, are of a fine shining black : the under 

 parts are pure snowy white : the female ? has the 

 upper parts brown. Occasionally found in Cayenne 

 and Guiana. 



