TANAG^EA. 



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Tanagm nas a more feeble bill than Buthraupis, the culmen rather strongly curved, 

 and the gonys but slightly ascending ; the nostrils are round and open, situated at the 

 end of the nasal fossa ; the wings are long, and the tarsi short, in accordance with the 

 insessorial habits of all the species. In general coloration olive and blue are the chief 

 colours in the Central-American species ; but the most brightly coloured birds are in 

 South America, orange and red appearing in the plumage of T. striata. 



1. Tanagra cana. 



Tanagra cana, Sw. Orn. Draw. t. 37^; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 232'; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 29°; 



Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 141*; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 297'; Scl. & Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 500"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 188'. 

 Tanagra (Aglaia) diaconus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 175 ^ 

 Tanagra diaconus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 142', 233", 303"; 1859, p. 364''; 1864, p. 173"; 



Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 16"; 1860, p. 33"; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 350"; 1870, p. 836"; 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 59"; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. Ill"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. 



p. 175'°; ix. p. 99"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 138''; 1870, p. 187''; Ibis, 1872, p. 316'*; 



Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 550 " ; v. Frantz. J. f . Orn. 1869, p. 298 '°. 

 Thraupis diaconus, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 330 '^ 

 Tanagra episcopus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 116 '". 



Cserulesoenti-cana, dorso toto obscuriore, uropygio vix csendescente ; alls oaudaque fusoo-nigris, cseruleo limbatis, 

 humeris et tectricibus alarum minoribus Isetissime caBmleis, subalaribus albia ; rostro et pedibus obscure 

 plumbeis. Long, tota 6-0, alae 3-4, caudae 2-5, rostri a rictu 0-6, tarsi 0-7. (Desor. maris ex Lanquin, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari omnino similis. 



Edb. Mexico ( White ^^), Hot region of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast ^^, le Strange), Cordova 

 {Salle ^1), Jalapa {de Oca ^^) ; British Hondukas, Belize {Leyland ^^ Blancor 

 neaux); Guatemala {Velasquez de Leon^^, Constancia'' ^^), Peten {Leyland ^% 

 Yzabal, Cahabon, Lanquin, Choctum, Yaxcabnal, Dueiiasis, Escuintla, Santa 

 Lucia Cosamalguapa, Eetalhuleu {0. S. & F. B. G.); Hondubas {Edwards ^% 

 San Pedro {G. M. Whitely^''), Omoa {Leyland ^^) ; Nicaeagua, Eealejo {Lesson % 

 Chontales {Belt^^); Costa Eica {Hoffmann ^\ v. Frantzius^% San Jose and 

 Angostura {Carmiol^^), Tucurriqui {Arce}, Irazu {Sogers), Bebedero Mcoya 

 (Arce), Punta Arenas {0. S.) ; Pai^ama, Chiriqui {Bridges % David {Hicks^^), 

 Santa Fe 22, Calovevora 23, Chitra^s {Arce), Lion-Hill Station {M'Leannan^^% 

 Paraiso Station {Hughes), Turbo {Wood*).— Colombia^ ^; Ecuador; Venezuela^; 

 Teinidad 2 and Tobago ''. 



Our dissected specimens show that there is no apparent difference between the male 

 and female of this species as regards coloration ; but we have several examples in which 

 the plumage is of a greener cast, the head of nearly the same colour as the back, and 

 the blue of the wings duller in tint. These we take to be birds killed out of the 

 breeding-season, or perhaps young birds which have not yet assumed their fully coloured 

 plumage. 



