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Genus XXXVII TANAGER. 
N° x. Silent ‘T. N° 3. Rude T. 
2. Yellow-fronted T. 4. Showy T.. 
Tanagra, filens, Ind. Orn. i. pi'432. 42: 
Tanagre de la Guiane, P/, Exl. 742. 
LENGTH feven inches : bill black: general colour of the plum- 
age sreen, but the head and under parts are hoary 5 fides of the 
head black ; over the eyes a ftreak of white: throat white; beneath 
this a curved bar of black: fhoulders yellow. 
Inhabits the thick woods of Guiana: is a folitary bird; oftener 
found fitting on the ground, than perched on a tree; and by no 
means endowed witha fong. 
Emberiza flayifrons, Mu/ Carl/. fafc. iv. t. 92: 
SIZE of the Rufous-headed Tanager: bill and legs black: crown;. 
hind head, and beginning of the nape blue; but the feathers are 
brown at the bafe: the forehead yellow: the reft of the plumage 
green, but inclining to yellow on the throat: quills and tail dufky 
black. 
Its native place is not mentioned, but we fufpect it to be South 
America; and that itis very probably the young bird, or a female of 
the one we have compared it with aboye.. 
