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one in Europe; which is much to be lamented, for 

 although they would not enliven our groves with 

 their song, the brilliancy of their plumage would 

 make ample amends. In the different species, every 

 colour, in its brightest hue, maybe found, sometimes 

 mingled together, as in the Painted Tanager 

 (Tanagra picta), where the brightest shades of 

 green, blue, orange, and black, are so intermingled 

 as to render it, when exposed to the full rays of the 

 sun, almost dazzling to look upon. In another, the 

 Scarlet Tanager, there are only two colours; but so 

 contrasted, as to produce the strongest effect; the 

 wings and tail appearing like the deepest shade of 

 jet-black velvet; while the rest of the bird is of the 

 deep crimson blood-red colour of the fleshy part of 

 a ripe cherry. Its note is very simple, but has one 

 peculiarity: viz., that although the bird may be close 

 at hand, the sound appears to come from a distance; 

 and as it lives generally in the most secluded shades 

 of the forest, it is not improbable, that this deception 

 in its note, may often be the means of preserving its 

 life, the hunter being thus led away from an object 

 so easily discovered; but which, owing to the appa- 

 rently distant sound, he little suspects to be within 

 his reach. 



TABLE VIII. (See page 13.) 



Order 2. PASSERINE. Tribe 2. SERHATIROSTRAL (serrated 

 bills), so called from the jagged or tooth -like edges of the 

 bill. 



THIS tribe consists but of three genera: 1. The 

 Plant-cutter; 2. the Momots; 3. the Ilornbills; all 



