TANAGER. 



28— CERULEAN TANAGER. 



Tanagra canora, Ind. Orn. i. 432. Gin. Lin. i. 896. 

 Tangara caerulea Novae Hispanise, Bris. iii. 15. Id. 8vo. i. 307. 

 Xiuhtototl, Fern. N. Hisp. 13. cap. 120. Buf. iv. 298. 1. 

 Cserulean Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 245. Share's Zool. x. 446. 



SIZE of the House Sparrow. Bill brownish ; general colour of 

 the plumage blue, with a little mixture of fulvous; wings partly 

 blue, partly fulvous, with a slight mixture of black ; tail black, 

 tipped with white ; legs grey. 



Inhabits Mexico, and called by some Elotolotl : said to sing well, 

 and to be good food. 



29— CAPITAL TANAGER— Pl. xciv. 



Tanagra capitalis, Ind. Orn. i. 432. 



Capital Tanager, Gen. St/n. Sup. 162. pl. 112. Shaw's Zool. x. 457. pl. 41. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill stout, of a dusky flesh-colour; head, 

 throat, and fore part of the neck, to the breast, black ; upper half 

 of the neck behind, the sides of it, and all the under parts yellow, 

 inclining to orange on the breast; the rest of the plumage pale olive 

 yellow ; wings and tail darker, edged with yellow ; legs flesh-colour. 

 In the Museum of the late Sir Ash ton Lever. 



One of these, in the collection of Mr. Brogden, had the back of 

 a high-coloured yellow; below the breast rufous orange; feathers 

 about the head short, and of a velvety texture. 



Another in the collection of Mr. Comyns, is six inches long. Head 

 and beneath, to the breast, black ; back of the neck chestnut ; lower 

 part of the neck, back, and wings yellow ; but when the plumage is 

 dishevelled, appearing mixed brown and yellow, as the feathers are 

 brown for three-fourths of the length ; shoulders brown ; quills the 



