7 WAN WAG ORR. 
Tanagra gyrola, Liz. Sy?.i. p. 315. N° 7. 
Le Tangara verd de Perou, Brif. orn. iii. p. 23e N° 13. pl. 4. fi 16 
— de Perou, PJ. enl. 133. f. 2. 
Le Rouverdin, Buf. oi. iv. p. 286. 
Fringilla viridis, capite fpadiceo, &c. N. Com. Petr. vol. xiv. Pp. 4320 40 
pl. 15. f. 4. var. 
Red-headed Greenfinch, Edw. pl. 23. 
Br. Muf. Lev, Mu. 
IZE of a Linnet: length four inches three quarters. Bill 
horn-colour: general colour fhining green: the whole head 
rufous: breaft pale blue: on the upper part of the wing a {pot 
of yellow: quills and tail brown, edged with green, and the 
two middle feathers of the laft wholly green: legs pale brown. 
Inhabits various parts of South America, Cayenne, Guiana, &c. 
It is met with twice or three times in a year at this laft place, 
frequenting large trees, which grow in the forefts in great num- 
bers, to eat the fruit thereof; difappearing as often as fuch 
fruits begin to fail them: they are feldom met with near the 
inhabited places. 
That defcribed in the Peter/b. Tran/. had the ace: of a pale 
chefnut. 
The head of that figured by Edwards was of a dull {carlet, 
and the neck furrounded by a yellow ring, the breaft blue, and 
the reft of the body green: differences not fufficient to ferm two 
fpecies. 
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