CHAPTER XVI. 



TflE TANAGER FAMILY 



( Tanagrida). 



The Superb Tanager The Brazilian Tanager The 

 Violet Tanager The All-Green Tanager The 

 Thick-billed Tanager -The Black-headed Tanager 

 The Green-headed Tanager ; 



HIS family includes some of the very 

 handsomest birds that are to be met with 

 in any part of the world, but, except 

 the species described in this chapter, 

 are seldom imported, as they are difficult to preserve 

 alive in confinement. 



THE SUPERB TANAGER, Calliste fastuosa, is a 

 bird that almost beggars description, so many and 

 varied are the hues of its brilliant coat, on which 

 bluish-green with a golden gloss vies with velvety 

 black, and golden orange with pale blue, and the 

 deepest azure, all combining to produce a tout- 

 ensemble that might well be taken for a creature 

 of the artist's imagination had not many specimens 

 of the bird been seen alive at various times in the 

 collection of the Zoological Society, and even in 



