16 TANAGER. 



Fringilla pectore cseruleo, Klein, 98. 



Fringilla viridis capite spadiceo, Act. Petr. xiv. 432. t. 15. f. 4. Var. 



Tangara de Perou, Le Rouverdin, Buf. iv. 286, PI. enl. 133, 2. Desm. Tan. 



pi. 16. 7. 

 Tangara tachete de Cayenne, PL enl. 301. 1. — fem. 

 Red-headed Greenfinch, Edw. pi. 23. 

 Red-headed Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 233. Shaw's Zool. x. 449. 



SIZE of a Linnet ; length five inches. Bill horn-colour ; 

 general plumage shining green ; the whole head- rufous; breast pale 

 blue; on the upper part of the wing a yellow spot; quills and tail 

 brown, edged with green ; the two middle feathers of the last wholly 

 green ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and other parts of South America. Is met 

 with at Guiana two or three times in a year, and frequents large 

 trees, which grow in the forests, in great numbers, to eat the fruits 

 as they ripen ; and disappears when such food begins to fail. 



That described in the Petersburgh Transactions, has the thighs 

 pale chestnut. 



The head of the bird figured by Edwards is dull scarlet, and the 

 neck surrounded with a yellow ring ; the breast blue, the rest of the 

 body green. 



One in Lord Stanley's collection is five inches and a half long. 

 Head and sides of the chin rufous ; rest of the plumage above fine 

 green ; beneath paler, with a bluish tinge ; thighs rufous ; the wings 

 of one colour, without any yellow spot, as in that figured in the PI. 

 enlum ; legs black. 



The above seem to be mere differences from age or sex. 



17.— ARCHBISHOP TANAGER. 



Tangara A relieve que, Desm. Tang. pi. 17. 18. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill and legs black ; the head, neck, 

 and back greyish violet ; lower belly and rump grey; back olive; 



