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Tanagra cana (156). SILVER-BLUE TANAGER.


PLATE. Swainson. Orn. Drawings (Bds, of Brazil) II., pi. 37 and pi. 41.

( = young). /KB.


Ibis, 1901, 466. Avic. Mag., VI., 71.


T. darwini (165). DARWIN’S TANAGER. Ibis, 1901, 467.


T. palmarum violilavata. VIOLET PALM-TANAGER.


B. & C. List, 4282. Ibis, 1901, 466.


Sporothraupis cyanocephala (162). BLUE-CAPPED Olive TANAGER.


An olive-backed grey-bellied Tanager with a “ Tanagra-blue ” head.

Rhamphoccelus icteronotus (177). YELLOW-RUMPED TANAGER.


PLATE. Du Bus, Esquis, Orn., 1845, pi. 15. /RB. Ibis, 1901, 468.


A velvety black bird with lower back and upper tail-coverts sulphur yellow.

* Psittospiza riefferi (281). RIEFFER’S GRASS-GREEN TANAGER.


Ibis, 1901, 472. Avic. Mag., VI., 94.


A robust heavily-built bird of a brilliant emerald green with a maroon

chestnut face, broad “ orange ” bill and legs. In several of these birds the

green has changed (from captivity) to a lovely blue, changing the appearance

greatly, so that one would think the cage contained two distinct species, or

at any rate the two sexes of a species in which the cock and hen were

markedly different.


One or two species of SALTATOR are included in the collection :

Buarremon, three species of this seed-eating genus, now removed from the

TANAGRIDiE and classed with the FRINGILLIDiE and resembling buntings,

B. assimilis. GREY-STRIPED BUARREMON. Ibis, 1901, 470.


A bird about the size of a red cardinal ; olive green above, white below,

with a longitudinally striped black and ashy head and bold red eyes.


B. schistaceus (267). ASHY-BREASTED BUARREMON. Ibis, 1901, 471.


Smaller than the above. A black and grey finch-like bird with chestnut cap.

B. spodionotus (264). ASHY-BACKED BUARREMON. Ibis, 1901, 471.


A yellow-bellied, grey-backed, chestnut-crowned tanager.

CiEREBIDAE.


Diglossa personata (10). MASKED GUITGUIT.


Ibis, 1901, 317. Avic. Mag., Vol. VI., pp. 225-226.


A lapis-lazuli blue bird with black mask and red eyes. Size of Garden

warbler.


Iridophanes pulcherrima <24). YELLOW-COLLARED SUGAR-BIRD.


Ibis, 1901, 318. RB. II. 391.


Chloroplianes spiza (29). BLACK-HEADED SUGAR-BIRD.


A.G.B. For. Birds, I. 73. Russ 11, 414.


Two true pairs. The hen has no black head and seems to be of a much

brighter and more grassy green than the cock.


FRINGILLIDiE.


Pheucticus chrysogaster (XII. 52). YELLOW-BELLIED GROSBEAK.


Ibis, 1901, 473. Avic. Mag., I. 26. VI. 234.



