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That figured in the P/. en/. has the upper parts brown, which 
Buffon fappofes to have arifen from the painting being taken 
from a dead fpecimen; but this is not the reafon merely, fince 
the defcription above was alfo taken from the dead bird. I am 
inclined therefore to think that the brown one is a mere fexual 
difference, if it does not arife from age. 
Inhabits Guiana and Cayenne, but is not very common. 
Tanagra virens, Liz. Sy/?. 1. p. 317. N° 22. 
Le Tangara Verd du Brefil, Bri/. orz. iii, p. 25.—Buf. oi/. iv. p. 268. 
Trifle bigger than a Houfe Sparrow: length fix inches and 
a quarter. Bill dufky: head and upper parts green : between 
the bill and eyes a black fpot, beneath which is a deep blue 
band, which extends the whole length of the under mandible : 
the throat of a fine black: fore part of the neck yellow: the reft 
of the under parts yellowifh green: the upper leffer wing coverts 
gloffy fea-green ; the others green: the quills dufky, with blueith 
edges: the tail much the fame, but the two middle feathers 
greenifh: the legs brown. 
This inhabits Mexico, Peru, and Brafil. In Linneus, the cheeks 
of the bird are faid to be black ; but I do not find it fo defcribed . 
in. Briffon. 
IZE of an Houfe Sparrow: length five inches and a half, 
Bill red brown, with a yellow tip: the upper parts of the 
plumage olive green: between the bill and eye a yellowifh white 
fpot: all the under parts yellow, growing pale on the belly and 
vent: quills dufky, edged with yellow, inclined to ferruginous 
near 
Peace. 
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