That most accurate observer, Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied, who 

 gives an excellent description of this bird under the latter name, met 

 with it very commonly in the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro and 

 Cabo Frio in South-east Brazil, but not farther northwards. He 

 says it has no song, but only a short weak call-cry. " In the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Fazenda of Guirajpina, and in the environs of the 

 Lagoa of Ponta Negra, also near Marica and by Campos in the 

 vicinity of the river Parahyba,^' observes this writer, " these beau- 

 tiful birds are excessively common. They are by no means shy, 

 and, like other Tanagers out of the breeding-season, are united in 

 small flights, passing from one fruit-tree to another, and paying par- 

 ticular attention to the orange-trees." 



The Prince did not acquire any information concerning the nesting 

 of this bird. We are told that it is often kept in cages by the Bra- 

 zilians on account of its beautiful plumage. 



There are no generally accessible published figures of this Tanager 

 except the somewhat insufficient representations of BuflFon and 

 Desmarest. Temminck, however, gives a tolerable plate of the 

 female in his " Planches Coloriees." 



