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green in fome parts, and verging to grey in others: the lefier 
wing coverts are moft inclined to blue: the legs are cinereous. 
The female has the head, neck, and breaft, blue green: belly 
grey: back and wing coverts brown: acrofs the laft an ob- 
lique greyifh bar: quills and tail black ; the laft is fomewhat 
forked. 
This fpecies inhabits Cayenne, efpecially about the fkirts of the 
forefts, and feeds on the leffer kind of fruits: fometimes found 
in large flocks, but obferved to keep two and two together : 
roofts of nights on the palm-leaves: and has little or no fong, 
except a fharp and difagreeable voice may be called fuch. It is 
called by the inhabitants of Cayenne, L’Eveque. 
Tanagra fayaca, Lin. Syf.1. p. 316. N° 20. 
Le Tangara varié du Brefil, Brif. ora. iii. p. 18. N° 10. 
Le Tangara tacheté de Cayenne, P/. en/. 301. f. 1. 
Le Syacou, Buf. cif. iv. p. 288.—Raii Syz. p. 89. 3.—Will. orn. p. 256.— 
Salern. p. 273. N° 3—Edw. pl. 351. f. 2 *. 
Lev. Muf. 
ESS than the laft. Bill and eyes black: general colour of 
the plumage cinereous, mixed with fea-green, the upper 
parts partaking moft of the laft colour; and the bird, if expofed 
to the fun, appears very gloffy. 
Inhabits Cayenne with the former, but is more rare. It is 
called by the inhabitants Sayacou. 
* Tam not clear that Edwards means our Sayacou, here defcribed ; as his figure 
meafures fix inches and a half, whereas that in the P/. en/. is only four inches 
and a half. 
Gg2 Tanagra 
227 
FEMALE. 
PLacz AND 
Mawnwers. 
19. 
SAYACU T. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Pace. 
