VIOLET T. 
DescRIPTION. 
FEMALE. 
Pace. 
10. 
BLACK-FACED 
T. 
DeEscripTion. 
FEMALE. 
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Le Tangavio, Buf. cif. iv. p. 241.—Pl, enl. 710. 
ENGTH eight inches. Bill ftout, dufky black: colour 
of the plumage a deep violet, with a greenifh caft on the 
wings and tail; but on firft infpeétion the bird appears black : 
the legs are blackifh; and the claws ftrong and large. 
The female has a black head, with a glofs like that of polifhed 
fteel: the reft of the plumage dull brown, with a flight glofs -of 
black en the upper parts of the body and rump. 
Inhabits Buenos-Ayres, in South America. 
Le Camail ou la Cravate, Buf. oi. iv. p. 254. 
Tangara a Cravate noire de Cayenne, P/. ex/. 714. f. 2. 
ENGTH feven inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, 
moderately ftrong, and black; the upper mandible whitith 
at the bafe: all the fore part of the head, fides, chin, and fore 
part of the neck, black, ending in a point on the breaft: the reft 
of the plumage afh-colour, paleft beneath; quills and tail 
deepeft; the laft rounded in fhape: legs dufky. 
The female has the head and fore parts brown, where the other 
is black; and the upper parts are of a pale yellowifh afh-colour: 
beneath rather paler than the upper parts *. 
Inhabits Guiana, where it frequents the open parts, but is not 
common. 
* Tam indebted, for the defcription of the female, to a collection of birds 
lately from Cayenne, where the pairs were tied together, fo that I could not hefi- 
tate a moment in pronouncing the laft-defcribed to be the other fex. Bufox 
only mentions the male. 
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