RUDE TANAGER. 471 



Tanagra sinensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 897- Lath, Ind. Orn. 



1. 4<26. 22. 



Mesange de Nanquin. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 204.pl. 114. 

 Chinese Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 220. 23. 



THIS is one of the few Tanagers that are found 

 in the old Continent : it is a native of China, and 

 is as large as the Domestic Finch : its length is 

 five inches and a half: its beak is red brown at 

 the base and yellow at the tip : the upper parts of 

 its plumage are olive green : its quills are dusky, 

 with the base rather rust-coloured and the edges 

 yellowish: between the beak and eye is a yellowish 

 white spot : all the under parts of the plumage 

 are yellow, the belly and vent being palest : tail 

 the same as the wings : legs dusky. 



RUDE TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra rudis.) 



TA, rostro jugulo pedibusque fusco-cinereis, pectore dbdomine 



crisso uropygioquejerrugineo-rufis, reliquisjusco-nigris. 

 Tanager with the beak, jugulum, and feet, brown ash ; the breast, 



abdomen, vent, and rump, rusty red ; and the other parts of the 



body brown black. 

 Tanagra rudis. Mus. Carls. A. pi. 94. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. 



xlvii. 2. 

 Ilude Tanager. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 2O5. 3. 



DESCRIBED in the Museum Carlsonianum, where 

 it is stated to be a native of the Coromandel Coast : 



