TANAGER. 



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first about September, and frequents a particular, large tree, which is 

 just then in flower, and as soon as the fruit sets, begins its depreda- 

 tions ; it generally stays six weeks, and then passes elsewhere ; but 

 returns again in April and May, at which time the fruit ripens ; it is 

 about this tree alone, that the bird is found, for it does not frequent 

 others : it may be kept in a cage, will feed on bread and meal ; said 

 to have no song, but only a short and shrill note. 



32. —GOLDEN TANAGER. 



Tanagra violacea, Ind. Orn. i. 429. Lin. i. 314. Mus. Ad. Fr. ii. 31. Nov. C. Petr. 



xi. 431.3. 1. 14. f. 3. Boroivsk, iii. 173. t. 69. Gm.Lin.u 890. 

 Reg. alter Cap. B. Spei, Gerin. iii. t. 359. Nat. Misc. pi. 305. 

 Tangara Brasiliensis nigro-lutea, Bris. iii. 31. t. 2. f. 2. — male. Id. 8vo. i. 312. PL 



enl. 114. f. 2. — female. 

 Le Lindo bleu et dore, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 99. 

 Teitei, Rail, 92. 12. Buf. iv. 295. 

 Eupbone Teite, Desm. Tang. pi. 21, 22, 23. 

 Teitei Guiranhemgeta, Geraundi, Will. 194. Id. Engl. 266. 

 Golden Tanager, Gen. Syn.m. 239. Edw. pi. 263. 1. Shaw's Zool. x. 466. 



SIZE of a Canary Bird ; length three inches and three quarters. 

 Bill black ; forehead and all beneath golden yellow ; the rest of the 

 plumage black, with a polished steel gloss ; quills within, two-thirds 

 from the base, white, except the three first; tail the same, except 

 the two middle feathers, which are wholly black ; legs black. 



The female is olive-green above, with the forehead yellowish ; 

 on the chin a spot of yellow ; rest of the throat cinereous ; under 

 parts yellowish, with an olive hue ; the two outer tail feathers white 

 on the inner margins ; legs brownish. 



The young birds are often parti-coloured, blue and olive-green 

 mixed ; the yellow on the forehead very dull ; but on the under parts 

 sufficiently distinct. 



The female makes a nest not unlike that of the Jacarini, but 

 with reddish leaves instead of grey ones : is common at Cayenne, 



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