TAN AGRA canicapilla. 

 Grey-crowned Tanager. 



Generic Character. 



Rostrum breve, validum, conicum, basi trigond, lateribus compressis, 

 culmine levafo, mandibuld superiore ad apicem dejhxd ct cmar- 

 ginatd, inferioris brexioris rectcv basi cra.ssd, ambanim mar- 

 ginibus injiexis. Nares parvoe, basi plutnosd, aperturd rotimdatd, 

 nudd. Alee mediocres. 



Bill short, strong, conic, base trigonal, sides compressed, culmin 

 elevated, upper mandible towards the tip deflexed and 

 notched, under mandible shorter and straight, the base thick, 

 the margins of both inflexed. Nostrils small, the base feathered, 

 the aperture round, naked. Wings moderate. 



Generic Types. Tanagra Jacapa, tricolor. Motacilla velia. Lin. 

 Pipra mmica. Lin. 



Specific Character. 



T. olivaceo-viridis, infrd Jlava ; xertice cinereo, strigd oculari auri- 

 busque nigris ; rostra gracili. 



Olive green, beneath yellow ; crown cinereous, eye stripe and 

 ears black; bill slender. 



The Tanagers are a numerous, and, in general, a beautiful 

 tribe, including some of the most richly coloured birds 

 of America ; to which continent modern ornithologists 

 consider they are exclusively confined. 



M. Temminck proposes to unite with the Tanagers, 

 several birds scattered in the Linnsean Genera of Lanius, 

 Loxia, Fringilla, Pipra, and Motacilla. This view of the 

 subject, it may not be superfluous to add, is in perfect 

 unison with my own. In fact, I had meditated a similar 

 arrangement ; but the appearance of M. Temminck's work 

 rendered the publication of my own remarks no longer 

 necessary. The bird here figured belongs to that division 

 which forms a transition to the Si/lvice, from which they are 

 readily distinguished by the thickened base of the under 

 mandible. It is not uncommon in the West Indies; but 

 I cannot find it described either among the Tanagers, 

 Finches, or Warblers of the Linnaean school : in this, 

 however, I may possibly be mistaken. It is represented 

 the size of life, and is sufficiently distinguished by its 

 specific character. 



PI. 174. 



