4 TANAGER. 



neck, the chin, throat, and breast, pale ash-colour; from thence the 

 under parts are pale ferruginous ; quills and tail dusky, the former 

 short, only reaching a little beyond the base ; legs dusky. 



Both sexes were in the collection of Gen. Davies, brought from 

 Rio Janeiro; it is called in Brazil, Tije, and is there very common. 



Inhabits also Mexico, Brazil, and other parts of South America. 

 BufFon mentions Canada also, but we have never seen any from 

 thence. It is a much rarer species than the red, or following. 



A. — Cardinalis nsevius, Bris. iii. 44. Id. 8vo. i. 215. Gen. Syn. iii. 216. A. 



Bill as in the last. General colour of the plumage crimson ; 

 breast, and upper part of the back, marked with greenish lunated 

 spots ; wings, tail, and legs, black. 



B. — Cardinalis torquatus, Bris. iii. 45. Id. 8vo. i. 316. 



Passer cyanerythromelas, &c. Rail, 87. Will. 185. 



Rumpless blue and red Indian Sparrow, Will. Engl. 252. Gen. Syn. m. 216. B. 



Bill black, near the forehead white ; plumage crimson, with two 

 semilunar blue spots on the sides of the neck ; wings and tail black ; 

 lesser wing coverts and margins of the first blue ; legs short, and 

 black. — Inhabits Brazil, with the last. 



3— OLIVE TANAGER. 



Tanagra olivacea, Ind. Orn. i. 421. Gm. Lin. i. 889. 



L'olivet, Buf. iv. 269. Desm. Tang. pi. 35. 36. 37. 



Olive Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 218. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 237. Shaw's Zool. x. 457. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill bent, pointed ; the lower mandible 

 passing much backwards, colour whitish ; nostrils at the base, small, 

 the feathers coming close; plumage above fine olive green; beneath 

 to the breast yellow, from thence to the vent yellowish white ; sides 



