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time. But in the present instance we are glad to be able to employ 

 Mr. Gray's appellation ; for it has both the claim of priority by a short 

 period, and the merit of perpetuating the name of an author who 

 wrote a Monograph of the beautiful family of birds to which the 

 present genus belongs at an early date, and gave to the world an 

 accurate account of all that was known about them at that time. 



Desmarest's Tanager may be at once distinguished from its close 

 alUes, the two lastly represented species of this genus, by the want 

 of any tinge of blue colouring on the rump or belly. The whole 

 bird is of a nearly uniform bright green with the chin and cap 

 chestnut-red, and the inner webs of the wing- and tail-feathers 

 blackish. 



