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quills and tail brown black, edged with yellowish green ; lesser wing 

 coverts above golden yellow, beneath white, towards the end dusky. 



The female is rather smaller: colour grey brown, with a greenish 

 tinge on the upper parts, and with violet beneath ; cheeks violet ; 

 quills and tail dusky, edged with greenish ; the upper wing coverts 

 yellow, but less bright than in the male. 



Specimens of both sexes are in the National Museum, at Paris. 



18. -BISHOP TANAGER. 



Tanagra Episcopus, Ind. Orn. i. 424. Lin.i. 316. Gm. Lin.i. 896. Bris. iii. 40. 



t. i. f. 2. Hist. Louis, ii. 140. Salem, 277. t. 19. f. 3. 

 Le Bluet, L'Eveque, Buf. iv. 265. t. 12. PL enl. 178. f. 1. 2. 

 Sayacu, Edw. pi. 351. 1. 

 Tangara Eveque, Destn. Tang. pi. 15, 16. 

 Bishop Tanager, Gen. Si/n. ii. 226. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 240. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 447. 



LENGTH six inches and a quarter. Bill black ; under man- 

 dible greyish ; plumage in general greyish blue, inclining to green 

 in some parts, and to grey in others ; the lesser wing coverts mostly 

 blue ; legs cinereous. 



The female has the head, neck, and back, pale greenish brown : 

 wing coverts pale greenish ash-colour; quills deep brown, base of 

 most of them pale greenish ash, appearing as a patch, at the bottom 

 of the greater wing coverts ; quills and tail fine brown ; all the under 

 parts pale greenish brown, more so than above ; before the eye, and 

 chin under the bill, pale ash-colour; the quills reach half way on 

 the tail ; bill and legs dusky. 



In some birds, supposed females, the head, neck, and breast, are 

 blue-green ; belly grey ; back and wing coverts brown ; across the 

 last an oblique greyish bar; quills and tail black, the latter some- 

 what forked. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; found also in Louisiana, especially about the 

 skirts of forests, and feeds on the smaller fruits, sometimes in large 



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