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24— JACARINI TANAGER. 



Tanagra Jacarina, Ind.Orn.i. 429. Lin. i. 314. Gm.Lin.i. 890. 



Tangara Brasiliensis nigra, Bris. iii. 28. Id. 8vo. i. 311. 



Carduelis Brasiliana, Jacarini, Will. 190. Id. Engl. 258. Buf. iv. 293. -Edtt>. pi. 306. 



Le Sauteur, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 138. 



Moineau d'e Cayenne, PI. enl. 224 ? 



Jacarini Tanager, Gen. Syn.m. 238. Shaw's Zool. x. 475. 



SIZE of the Goldfinch. Bill thick, ash-coloured ; general 

 colour of the plumage black, with a polished gloss, reflecting green 

 and blue in some lights ; inside of the wings white ; tail rather 

 forked ; legs ash-colour. 



The female wholly grey ; the male is also the same in the time 

 of moulting, and sometimes partly grey and partly black, so as to 

 appear a different species. 



Inhabits Brazil, and called Jacarini;* by the Portuguese, Ne- 

 grette : common at Guiana, most so in newly cultivated land, 

 frequenting small trees, chiefly coffee trees ; observed to hop upwards 

 often from the branch, first alighting on one foot, and then the other, 

 each time accompanying the leap with a not unpleasing note, and 

 spreading out the tail. The leaping is only made by the male, the 

 female behaving like other birds. They build an hemispherical nest, 

 about two inches in diameter, of dry herbs of a greyish colour, and 

 lay two greenish white eggs, marked with small numerous red spots, 

 most so at the larger end. 



25. -WHITE-HEADED TANAGER. 



Tanagra albifrons, Ind. Orn. i. 431. 



■ leucocephala, Gm. Lin. i. 896. 



Quatoztli, Seba, i. 58. et 36. 6. 



Tangara Brasiliensis leucocephala, Bris. iii. 35. Id. 8vo. i. 313. 



White-headed Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 244. Shaw's Zool. x. 468. 



SIZE of the Golden Tanager ; length four inches. Bill yellow ; 

 forehead white ; plumage on the upper parts blackish brown ; throat 



* M. d'Azara rather supposes it should be Yacamiri, which means small head. 



