ARREMON TORQUATUS, Vwilht. 

 Silent Tanager. 



PLATE LIX. 



A. olivaceus, capite medio, nuchaque incanis ; vitta oculari fasciaque jugulari nigris ; 

 abdomine albido. 



Silent Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. vi. p. 22.—Shatv, Gen. Zool. vol. x. part ii. p. <i69. 

 Tanager silens, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. p. 432. 

 Arremon torquatus, Vieill. Gall, plate 78. 



This bird is a native of Guiana and Cayenne, and constitutes the genus 

 Arremon of Vieillot. It was separated by him from the Linnean Tana- 

 gers, a division possessing an immense variety and modification of charac- 

 ters, and which now affords types for many genera. Very little appears to 

 be known of its habits, and we had no notes accompanying our specimen. 



The size is about that of the common Chaffinch. The forehead, cheeks, 

 a broad streak over each eye, and a narrow collar upon the upper part of 

 the breast, are black ; the back and sides of the neck are bluish-grey, and 

 that colour is continued upwards in three streaks, one to each eye above 

 the auriculars, and there terminated with white, the other along the centre 

 of the crown ; the back, greater and lesser wing-coverts, the edges of the 

 quills and tail-feathers, are yellowish-oil-green ; the throat and middle of 

 the breast and belly are pure white, having the sides shaded into a brown- 

 ish-grey ; the quills and tail are brownish-black ; the bill is gamboge-yel- 

 low; the legs are pale wood-brown, rather long, and the feet large in 

 proportion to the size of the bird. 



