TANAGER. 11 



and thighs red; quills and tail olive brown, with pale margins, the 

 latter three inches long. 



Inhabits the thick woods about Cayenne and Guiana, sometimes 

 approaching the inhabited, and more open spots, perching on the 

 bushes ; both sexes are much alike as to colour, and mostly together; 

 the food fruits and insects : M. d'Azara says, the irides are rufous.— 

 The nest is found on thick bushes, near plantations, placed about 

 the middle of the bush, made of small twigs of the Liane dry, mixed 

 with leaves, with a lining of softer materials ; it is of small dimen- 

 sions, about four inches in diameter, and only two and a half within ; 

 the eggs two, fine blue, spotted with black ; has a song in pairing 

 time, varied, and not disagreeable : is sometimes kept in a cage, and 

 will feed on bread, husked maize, fruits, and many other things, 

 swallowing the food whole ; but if too large, will break it with the 

 bill. — In the Leverian Museum was a specimen, dark ash-colour on 

 the breast. 



One, supposed the female, in the collection of Lord Stanley, is 

 deep dusky ash-colour above, beneath pale greenish ash ; vent and 

 under tail coverts rufous buff; lower part of the thighs, next the 

 joint, pale yellow green ; tail three inches and a half long, rounded 

 at the end, the outer feather half an inch shorter than the middle ; 

 all but the two middle ones glossed with green ; over the eye a dusky 

 white streak, but obscure, with a dusky streak on each side of the 

 lower mandible : throat dusky white. 



10.— CRESTED TANAGER. 



Tanagra cristata, Ind. Orn. i. 422. Lin. i. 317. Gm.LinA. 898. Borowsk, iii. 174. 



Tangara Cayanensis nigra cristata, Bris. Sup.G5. t.4. f. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 319. 



La Houppette, Buf. iv. 240. PL enl. 7. f. 2. et 331. 2. Desm. Tang. pi. 47. 48. 49. 



Troupiale de Bois noir et couronne, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 77. 



Crested Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii, 221. Shaw's Zool.x. 478. 



LENGTH six inches and a quarter. Bill black ; head crested, 



the crest orange-colour ; chin, lower part of the back, and rump 



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