TANAGER. 15 



15.— RED-THROATED TANAGER. 



Tanagra gularis, Ind. Orn. i. 425. Lin. i. 316. Gm. Lin. i. 824. 



Cardinalis Americanus, Bris. App. 67. t. 4. f. 4. Id. 8vo. i. 320. 



Le Rouge Cap, Buf. iv. 267. 



Tangara brun d'Amerique, PI. enl. 155. 2. 



■ rouge Cap, Desm. Tang. pi. 12, 13, 14. 



Le Capita, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 137. 



Red-headed Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 228. Shaio , s Zool. x. 461. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill brown, beneath orange ; irides 

 red ; head,* chin, and throat, crimson, tending to a point on the 

 last, and there spotted with purple ; upper parts of the body, wings, 

 and tail, fine glossy black, the under pure white : tail three inches 

 long, and somewhat rounded ; legs dusky. 



Male and female nearly alike. The one figured in the PI. enliim. 

 has the upper parts brown ; which, if not a sexual distinction, may 

 perhaps be the dress of a young bird. 



Inhabits Guiana and Cayenne, but is not common ; found more 

 frequently at Paraguay, and about the river Plate, where it is called 

 Capita and Acapita, or Red Head ; by the Spaniards Cardinal ; is 

 seldom seen amidst deep woods, or open plains ; the flight short, and 

 the gait progressive by leaps ; unites into small flocks in winter, and 

 approaches settlements ; bears confinement in a cage, and will feed 

 on all sorts of seeds, as well as insects : said to make a nest like 

 that of the Black-faced Finch, and to lay four eggs : the irides and 

 legs, in some, are red. 



16— RED-HEADED TANAGER. 



Tanagra gyrola, Ind. Orn. i. 427. Lin. i. 315. Gm. Lin. i. 891. 

 Tangara Peruviana viridis, Bris. iii. 23. t. 4. 1. Id. Svo. i. 310. 

 Fringillago viridis capite rubro, Gerin. iii. 333. 2. 



* In Linnaeus's description, the head is called black, " capite nigro ;" but I apprehend 

 this to be a mistake, as he describes from Brisson, whose bird has the head crimson. 



