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very deftructive to the rice plantations, as they fometimes vifit 
them in vaft flocks; it feeds alfo on the plants called Paco and 
Mamao : is kept often in cages, but not for its fong, as Willughby 
obferves that it only chirps like a Redfart*: it is alfo faid, that 
they delight to live together five or fix in a cage. 
35. Tanagra chlorotica, Lin. Sy. i. p. 317. N° 23. 
Var, A. Le Tangara noir & jaune de Cayenne, Bri/ orn. ill. p. 34. N° ig, pl. 2. 
fase v 
Tangara de Cayenne, P/. ew]. 114. f. 1. 
Br. Muf. 
DescrIPTION. HIS feems to be only a mere variety of the laft, having 
almoft the whole of the crown yellow, inftead of the fore- 
head : the under parts are yellow, but only from the breaft, as the 
whole chin and neck are black. 
36. Tanagra Cayana, Liz. Sy?.i. p. 316. N° 14. 
NEGRO T. Le Tangara noir de Cayenne, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 29. N° 17. pl. 2. f. 1 
Pl. enl. 114. f. 3. ; 
Le Tangara negré, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 297. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
DescriPTion. 1 ZE of the others. Bill and legs duiky : the whole plumage 
black, with a refleCtion of blue in fome lights, except the 
under part of the wings, and a fmall fpace on each fide of the 
breaft at their infertion, which are yellow, but this is fo much hid 
* Pernetty fays, it imitates the fong of other birds; but perhaps he may not 
ftritly mean our bird, as the Brajfilians call feveral others by the name of 
Teiti. 
when 
