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The female is brownish yellow, or olive green, on the upper 

 parts; full yellow beneath, at first sight appearing wholly yellow ; 

 forehead and above the eye brownish ; quills and tail greenish brown, 

 fringed with green. Young males, at first, are like the females. 



Inhabits Carolina and Virginia, in the summer ; at that time is 

 also frequent in Georgia : builds the beginning of May ; the nest 

 formed of dried flower stalks outwardly, lined within with hay ; the 

 eggs generally five, mottled with brown, with a cast of green. Ac- 

 cording to the Amer. Ornithology , the male has a strong, sonorous 

 whistle, like the trill of a fife, and frequently repeated. The female 

 only cries Chicky-tucky-tuck at the approach of any one, when 

 disturbed ; it frequents the flat sandy country, covered with wood, 

 interspersed with pines; in plenty in Carolina, Georgia, and Florida ; 

 some also in Mexico. 



Pl. xciii. 



A. — Tanagra vanegata, Ind. Orn. i. 421. Gm. Lin. i. 889. 6. /3. 

 Loxia vanegata, Gm. Lin. i. 849. 



Yellow-bellied Grosbeak, Gen. Syn.'m. 125 > Arct. Zool. ii. No. 215 ? 

 Variegated Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 219. pl. 46. Shaw's Zool. x. 463. 



Size of the others; bill and legs brown; plumage varied with 

 crimson and greenish buff-colour; the last in patches on the nape of 

 the neck, the whole of the wing, lower part of the back, and middle 

 of the belly; tail half crimson, half greenish buff. 



Inhabits America, and is probably a young bird of the Missis- 

 sippi, or Red Tanager, as we are informed, that for the first season, 

 the plumage is mixed in patches with greenish buff, in different 

 proportions according to the age, in the same manner as is seen in 

 the Hooked-billed Red Honey-Eater, the full plumage of which in 

 the adult is fine red. 



I have observed some specimens of the Summer Tanager, in 

 which the red is less bright, inclining to brick-colour. 



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