FRINGILLIDiE. 11 



rump azure-blue : all the upper parts are ashy-olive, 

 tinged with bluish : the borders of the wings and the 

 tail-feathers are greenish : the black on the region 

 of the eyes and the ears is dull; and the under parts 

 are reddish shaded with ash. 



Sp. 15. Ta. cyanocephala. Temm. PI. Col. 215.y. 1. — Tanagra 

 Cayenensis varia cyanocephalos. Briss. Orn. Sup. 57. pi. 4. 

 /. 1. — Le tricolor variete. Buff. PI. Erd. 33. / 2.— Green- 

 headed Tanager, female .'' Steph. v. x. p. 45 ] . — Cayenne. 



Sp. 16. Ta. canicapilla. Swain. Zool. Illust. iii. pi. 174. 



Ta? olivaceo-viridiSfinfraJla'Da ; vertice cinereo ; striga oculari 

 auribusque nigris ; rostro gracile. 



Olive-green Tanagei', beneath yellow; with the crown ash-co^ 

 loured ; a stripe through the eyes and the ears black j the 

 beak slender. 



Inhabits the West Indies. 



GENUS CXLII.— PYRANGA, Vieillot. 

 Rostrum comcum^Yohustum, 1 BeaJc conic, robust, thick, a 



crassum, basi paulo dila- 

 tum, supra infrdque con- 

 vexum, apice arcuatum : 

 mandibula superior mar- 

 gines inferioris tegens. 



little dilated at the base, 

 convex above and beneath, 

 its tip arcuated : the upper 

 Tnandible covering the 

 edges of the lower. 



Les Taxgaras Cardinals, Cuvier. 



Sp. 1. Py. rubra. 



Tanagra rubra. Steph. v. x.p. 462. Desm. Hist. Nat. Tan. Sfc. 

 pi. 34. — Loxia Mexicana. Steph. v. ix. p. 266. — Inhabits North 

 America. 



Sp. 2. Py. Mississippensis. 

 Tanagra Mississippensis. Steph. v. x. p. 463. Desm. Hist. Nat. 



Tan. ^x. pi. 32, 33. — Tanagra variegata. Steph. v. k. p. 463. 



Young. — Inhabits the borders of the Mississippi. 



