The Buntings are likewise seed birds, and have a 

 tooth- like process in the upper mandible, which 

 enables them to split their food with great facility. 

 In this genus are included the several species of 

 Whidah Birds, remarkable for their elegance and great 



length of tail. 



TANGER (TANAGRA), 



AND 



FINCHES (FRINGILLA). 



About eighty of these are contained in this Case, 

 The Tanagers are mostly natives of South America, 

 and no family of birds exhibit a greater diversity of 

 splendid colours. Ti^ey, as well as the Finches, feed 

 on grain and seed, and are often troubiesonfte and de- 

 structive to the plantations, in whose neighbourhood 

 they abound. Many of these are not yet described. 



FLY-CATCHERS (MUSCICAPA). 



The birds of this genus are perhaps more univer- 

 sally dispersed over every part of the globe than any 

 other. Their food is entirely insects, which, but for 



