36 TANAGER. 



hind part of the head and neck, and upper part of the back and 

 scapulars black ; belly, thighs, and vent, yellowish white, spotted 

 black and blue on the sides, and with black on the thighs ; upper 

 wing coverts glossy blue green, the greater black, edged with blue; 

 quills black, some of them edged with green, and others with white; 

 tail black, somewhat forked, edged outwardly with blue; legs black. 

 Inhabits Cayenne and Guiana, but not very common. The 

 Creoles call it by the name given by Buffon. If the same with that 

 of Ray, it is said to frequent fields, and mountainous parts of 

 Mexico, having an agreeable song, and the flesh well flavoured. 



45— BLUE TANAGER. 



Tangara Barbadensis caerulea, Bris. iii. 8. Id. 8vo. i. 305. 



Tangara bleu, Buf. iv. 282. PI. enl. 155. 1. 



Passer Americanus, Seba, i. 104. t. 67. 3. Gen. Syn. iii. 231. A. 



SIZE of a House Sparrow; length five inches and a half. Bill 

 black ; head, throat, fore part of the neck, back, scapulars, and rump 

 black ; wing coverts black, edged with blue; upper tail coverts 

 green ; belly, sides, thighs, and vent, white ; quills and tail black, 

 with purplish margins; legs black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — Seba's bird was sent to him from the Islands 

 of the River Berbice,* in the neighbourhood of Surinam. 



46— BLUE-SHOULDERED TANAGER. 



Loxia virens, Lid. Orn. i. 392. Lin. i. 303. Gm. Lin. i. p. 853. Daud. ii. p. 406. 



Shaw's Zool. ix. 251. 

 Blue-shouldered Grosbeak, Gere. Syn. iii. 151. 



THE general colour of this bird is green, but the wing coverts 

 on the shoulders blue ; quills and tail black, margins of the feathers 



* Ex Insulis Barbicensibus. But Brisson's is made to inhabit Barbadoes, as he says 

 Barbadeusibus Insulis — possibly the bird may be found in both places. 



