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bright yellowish green; lesser and middle wing coverts violet-blue; 

 the greater greenish black, with the outer margins green ; quills 

 much the same ; tail like the quills, marked with a small violet-blue 

 spot on the outer margin, near the tip ; shape a little forked, 

 lead-colour. 



A. — Tangara Cayanensis varia cyanoceph. Bris. Sup. 62. t. 4. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 319. 



PI. enl. 33. 2. 

 Le Tricolor, Buf. iv. 276. Gen. Syn. hi. 235. Var. A. Nat. Misc. pi. 537. 



Size of the last. Bill the same, and alike surrounded with 

 black at the base ; forehead pale green ; crown and throat violet- 

 blue; sides of the head orange red, passing to the back part of the 

 neck, which is of the same colour ; upper part of the back black; 

 rest of the body green ; across the wing coverts a stripe of yellow ; 

 quills and tail much as in the last, but the coverts are not blue. 



These two birds are, we may presume, the same, differing only 

 in sex ; but which of them is the male is not ascertained. Both of 

 these were from Cayenne ;* manners unknown. 



In the collection of Gen. Davies was a beautiful bird, probably 

 the young of the Green-headed ; length five inches and a half. Bill 

 black; head fine pale blue, paler at the back part, with here and 

 there a black spot ; the neck behind dull oker yellow, the feathers 

 spotted black in the middle ; below this dull green, many feathers 

 black also in the middle ; back pale orange red, growing yellowish 

 towards the rump, which is pale green ; chin and throat black ; the 

 breast verditer blue; from thence pale green, with an orange tinge; 

 wing coverts dull green, marked with black ; quills and tail black, 

 with green margins, and a trifle forked; legs pretty long, dusky. 



* Buffon mentions, that one of the last is in the cabinet of M. Aubri, and called Le 

 Pape de Magellan ; but it scarcely can be thought that the one came from the latter place, 

 if the former was from Cayenne. 



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