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PEMaLe. 
PLACE AND 
MANNERS. 
26. 
Var. Ae 
DESCRIPTION. 
a ae NG AEG SE Re 
the back, and rump, of a pale gilded yellow, with a tinge of 
green in fome lights: the upper parts of the back, fcapulars, 
and upper tail coverts, green: beneath, the throat is blue 
erey: the reft of the under parts confufedly mixed with pale 
gilded yellow, rufous, and blue grey, each appearing in different 
lights: the quills and tail are brown, edged with gilded green : 
legs dufky. 
The female has the crown rufous, as in the male: the upper 
parts of the plumage plain green: the under of a dull yellow, 
mixed with a tinge of green. 
In fome fpecimens, the rufous part on the head extends farther 
down than in others; and in fome birds this colour is alfo feen 
on the breaft and belly, and again on the upper parts of the 
body, and the green colour now and then changing into blue. 
This fpecies is pretty well known at Cayenne, where the people 
eall it, Le Dauphinois. It frequents the open places, and now 
and then approaches habitations: it feeds on fruits, and, among 
others, is peculiarly fond of bananas and guavas ; it falls alfo 
on the rice-fields, and deftroys great quantities of this grain: 
though there muft be numbers to do this, yet they can fcarce 
be faid to be in flocks, as they always keep two and two to- 
gether, being only guided to one place by the common attrac- 
tion of the food they are fond of. 
I do not find that it has any other note than a fhort and fhrill 
cry. 
Le Paffe-vert a téte bleue; Buf. cif. wv. p. 275¢ 
HIS is very like the laft, but the head is of a fine bright 
blue colour: the back is greenith yellow: fore part of the 
neck, the breaft, and belly, of a gilded yellow: the wings and 
tail plain ereen. 
P = Tanagra 
