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Tricolor. Green ; head, chin, throat, and breaft pal? 

 fca-colour ; black neck-band, head and fides of the neck 

 golden-green, a large fpot on the throat, and back black, 

 the brcatl-band blucifh, the abdomen and vent-feathers yel- 

 lowifli-green : the green-headed tanager of Latham. Of 

 this there is a variety. 



GilANENsis. Green, head cinereous-grey, front and 

 head-band on both fides from the front to the nape red : the 

 grey-headed tanager of Latham. Found rarely in the forefts 

 of Guiana. 



NiOKicoLi.is. Ohve, beneath yellow, black throat, 

 golden bread, feathers of the wings and tail-feathers brown, 

 with ohvaceoiis margins : the black-throated tanager. Found 

 in Guiana. 



Ri-FicoLLis. Black and blue, with a large red ftreak on 

 the throat, and black wings and tail : the rufous-throated 

 tanager of Latham. Found in Jamaica. 



LiiLCOCEPHALA. Black and brown, white front, reddifli 

 throat, purple breaft and wings, and yellowifli abdomen and 

 tent-feathers : the quatoztli of Seba. Found in the moun- 

 tains of Brafil. 



Flava. Yellow throat, breaft and fpots of the abdomen 

 black, quills and tail-feathers black, fea-coloured at the 

 margin. This is the guiraperea of Ray and Willughby, 

 ind the yellow tanager of Latham, Found in Brafil, of the 

 fize of a lark. 



Amboinensis. Varied with black and blue, black vertex, 

 blucifti-green rump ; cheeks, chin, throat, and breaft blueifti ; 

 abdomen and vent -feathers white. Found in Amboina, and 

 called calatti. 



Canora. Blueifti, varied with yellow ; black tail, white 

 at the apex ; and wings partly blueifti and partly yellow : 

 the xiuhtototlof Fernandes. Found in New Spain. 



Sinensis. Olivaceous, beneath yellow, with the quills 

 and tail-feathers black, yeOow at their margin : the Cliinefe 

 tanager of Latham. 



BoNARiENsis. Black and violet, with a flight greenifti 

 tint in the wings and tail : the violet tanager of Latham. 



Atra. Cinereous, with the face, chin, and throat black, 

 (thofe of the female yellow:) the camail or cravatte of 

 BufFon, and black-faced tanager of Latham. Found in 

 Guiana. 



PiLEATA. Blueifti -cinereous, beneath filvei-y, with the 

 vertex, temples, and fides of the neck black, and the ocular 

 fpot white ; the hooded tanager of Latham. Of this the 

 tijepiranga of Ray and Willughby is a variety. Found in 

 Guiana and Brafil. 



Melanictera. Above ferruginous, beneath very yel- 

 low, head and nape black, wings ftreaked with white, 

 and tail brown : the black-crowned tanager of Latham. 

 Found on the Caucafus and in Georgia. 



SiBiRiCA. Black, the tips of the down between the 

 {houlders and the rump ciliated with white. A Siberian 

 fpecies. 



Atricapili.a. Reddifti and rufous ; head, tail, and 

 wings ftiining black, with a roundifti tail : the mordore of 

 Buffon, and black-headed tanager of Latham. Found in 

 Guiana. 



Striata. Beneath yellow, with a head ftriated with 

 black and blue, back above blackifli and beneath golden, 

 quills and tail-feathers black, with a blue margin : the 

 onglet of Buffon, and furrow-clawed tanager of Latham. 

 Found in South America. 



NiGERRiMA. Black, with a white fpot within the wings : 

 the Guiana tanager of Latham. 



Capensis. Above ferruginous-brown, beneath ferru- 



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ginous, Taried with white ; the middle of the tail black, its 

 fides ferruginous-nifefcent, the bill yellowifti, the legs black. 

 Found at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 TANAH, in Geography. See San. 

 TANAIS, the Don, in Auclent Geography, a large river 

 which had its rile towards tlie eaft, in the territory of the 

 Thyrfagetes, traverfed the country of the Sarmatians, 

 turned its courfe to the fouth, and difcharged itfelf in the 

 lake of Maeotis. Its courfe was fo rapid, that it never 

 froze. Its borders were inhabited by the Sarmatians. The 

 two mouths of the Tanais were diftant 70 ftadia from one 

 another, according to Strabo. — Alfo, a town of European 

 Sarmatia, fituated between the mouths of the river of the 

 fame name. — Alfo, a river of Africa, which ran into the 

 Mediterranean, towards the fouth-weft, at five miles from 

 Thena. 



Tanais, in Mythology, a divinity peculiar to the Arme- 

 nians, to whom were confecrated the flaves of both fexes ; and 

 it is alfo faid, that the people of better rank offered to him 

 their daughters, who, as foon as they were confecrated to 

 this god, were authorifed by the law to proftitute themfelves 

 to the firft comer, until the time of their mai-riage. Nor 

 did this conduft by any means prevent the addrefles of 

 fuitors. 



TANAK Point, in Geography, a cape on the north 

 coaft of Java. S. lat. 6° 24'." E. long. 108^ 36'. 



TANAKAKA, a fmall ifland near the fouth-weft coaft 

 of Celebes, belonging to the Dutch. S. lat. 5° 30'. E. 

 long. 119° 42'. 



TANALITZKAIA, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Upha, at the conflux of the Urdafim and Ural ; 

 120 miles E. of Orenburg. 



TANAMBE, a town on the eaft coaft of Madagafcar. 

 S. lat. 16° 20'. E. long. 50° 20'. 



TANAON, a town on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 

 Leyta. N. lat. 11^ 10'. E. long. 125° l'. 



TANAOSIMA, one of the Japanefe iflands, about 

 100 miles in circumference. N. lat 30° 20'. E. long. 

 132° 30'. 



TANARGUE, a mountain of France, which gives name 

 to a diftrift in the department of the Ardeche ; 20 miles 

 S.W. of Privas. 



TANARO, one of the fix departments of Piedmont, 

 after its union with the French republic, Auguft 26, i8oa, 

 formerly Acqui and Afti, in N. lat. 44° 45', weft of Ma- 

 rengo, containing 197 fquare leagues, and 311,458 in- 

 habitants. It was divided into three circles, wz. Afti, 

 including 131,910; Acqui, 82,914; and Alba, 96,634 in- 

 habitants. The foil is broken by torrents, which form many 

 lakes and marfties. The fouth-weft diftrift confifts of barren 

 fpots and fruitful vallies ; the northern part is fertile, and 

 the hills yield abundance of wine of an inferior quality. 

 The principal produfts of the department 3tre grain, fruits, 

 and paftures, with quarries of ftone, mineral fprings, &c. 



Tanaro, a river of France, which rifes in the mountains 

 near Tenda, paffes by Coni, Cherafco, Alba, Afti, Alex- 

 andria, &c. and joins the Po, 3 miles E. of Valenza. 



TANARUS, the Tanaro, in Ancient Geography, a river 

 of Italy, in Liguria, which having been formed by the con- 

 fluence of many rivers, difcharged itfelf into the Padus, 

 north-weft of Dertona. 



TANASSERIM, in Geography. See Si AM. 

 TANAVELLE, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Cantal ; 4 miles W.S.W. of St. Flour. 



TANAW, a town of Napaul ; 45 miles S.W. of 

 Catmandu. 



TANBAY, 



