AGLAIA flava. 
Yellow Tanager. 
Specific CHARACTER. 
Above glossy fulvous yellow ; sides of the head, and middle of the 
throat, breast, and body, deep black ; wings and tail green. 
Tanagra flava. Lath. In. Orn. 1, 431. 
Tanagra Braziliensis flava. Briss. Orn. 3, 39, 22. 
Le guira-perea. Buff. Son. 12, p. 362. 
Yellow Tanager. Lath. Syn. 3, 244. Gen. Hist. 4, 22. 
Tanagra chloroptera. Vietl. Orn. 2. 
Tue buff-coloured yellow which spreads over the upper 
plumage of this bird, in some lights becomes much richer, 
and delicately gilded. ‘The wings appear to be sea-green, 
but this colour only margins the borders of the feathers, the 
inner parts of which are blackish: the tail is coloured in 
the same way, the feathers divaricating from the middle, 
which is slightly forked. ‘The black in front terminates at 
the vent; which, with the sides of the body, are waxen 
yellow. 
In the Ornithology of M. Vieillot, we find no mention of 
this well known bird by its long established name: but the 
T. chloroptera of this writer, described as a new species, 
is evidently no other than the flava of anterior authors. 
Our figure is of the natural size. The female is dark 
bluish green above, and buff beneath, much paler on the 
throat and breast: the chin and sides of the head blackish ; 
and the crown buff-coloured yellow. 
We found this species not uncommon in several parts of 
Brazil, particularly round Pernambucco ; frequenting the 
gardens, and feeding on the smaller-sized fruits. 
