28 TANAGER. 



Surinam, Brazil, and as far as Paraguay ; and often found in 

 company with the Jacarini ; visits rice plantations in vast flocks ; 

 and commits much depredation ; feeds also on the plants called Paco 

 and Mamao ;* often kept in cages, but has no song, only a chirp ; 

 delights to live five or six in one cage. 



A. — Tanagra chlorotica, Lin.'x. 317. Gm. Lin.u 890. 5. 0. Spalowsk.i. t. 43. 

 Tangara Cayanensis nigro lutea, Bris. iii. 34. t. 2. f. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 313. 

 Euphone chlorotique, Desm. Tang. pi. 24, 25. 

 Tangara de Cayenne, PL enl. 114. 1.— male. Gen. Syn. iii. 240. 35. A. 



In this almost the whole of the crown is yellow ; the same 

 colour beneath only from the breast; for the whole chin and fore part 

 of the neck, as well as the rest of the plumage, are black; the tail 

 feathers all of one colour. 



33 —NEGRO TANAGER. 



Tanagra Cayanensis, Ind. Orn. i. 430. Lin. i. 316. Gm. Lin. i. 894. 



Tangara Cayanensis nigra, Bris. iii. 29. t. 2. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 311. 



Euphone negre, Desm. Tang. pi. 26. 27. 



Le Tangara negre, Buf. iv. 297. Id. Sonnin. p. 358. pi. 48. Vieill. N. Diet. d'HisU 



Nat. 391. t.2l. 

 Negro Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 240. Shaw's Zoo/, x. 477. 



SIZE of the others. Bill and legs dusky; plumage in general 

 black, glossed with blue ; under part of the wings, and a small space 

 on each side of the breast, at their insertion, yellow, but scarcely 

 seen when the wings are closed, so that the bird appears wholly 

 black ; inner webs of some of the quills white. 



Inhabits Brazil, Mexico, and Guiana, but less common at the 

 last place. I observe, in one specimen, the under wing coverts are 

 white, and none of the inner webs of any of the quills of that colour. 



* Achras mammosa and Sapota. 



