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Tanayra Cristatella, Spix, 

 Braz. 53. 1. 



Black; brown above; dirty white beneath ; base of the 

 feathers ashy black; crown crested, black, purple 

 centred ; bill finch-like ; wings spotless ; tail black ; 

 body five, tail two inches and a half long. Tanagra 

 Pileata, Lath. ? Fringilla, Newied ? 



Cardinal Tanagehs, 



With the bill conical, slightly swollen, and with a 

 blunt prominent tooth at the sides. 



The genus Pyranga of Vieillot. 



Mississippi Tanager, Lath. Muscicapa Rubra, Lin. 

 Tanayra Mississipensis, Gm. T. Varieyata, Gm. 

 Loxia Viryinica, Gm. Tanayra JSstiva, Gm. The 

 Summer Med Bird of Catesby. Car. 1. 54. Edw. 

 t. 239. PI. Enl, t. 741. Lath. H. t. 93. Desm. 

 t. 32. 33. Wils. A. O. i. t. 6. f. 3. 4. 



Red Tanayer, Lath. 45. Loxia Mexicana, Lin. and T. 

 Olivacea, Gm. The Scarlet Sparrow, Edw. 343. t. 

 ; 44. PI. Enl. t. 156. 1. Brisson, iv.t.2. 5. Desm. 



Tang. t. 34. 37. Pyranga Erythromelas, Vieil. 



Red ; wings and tail black ; tail white-tipt ; female 

 and young olive-green; beneath white; throat and 

 chest yellow ; quills and tail brown. 



Black-headed Tanager, Lath. 13. Tanagra Atrica- 

 pilla, Gm. PI. Enl. 809. 2. 



Red; head, wings, and tail black; streak on wing 

 white ; length seven inches. Guiana. 



Cuvier has proposed to place this with Lanius, and 

 Vieillot makes it a genus called Lanio. But Temminck 

 places it here. 



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