ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE XXIII. 



TANAGRA TRICOLOR 

 TRICOLOURED TANAGER var /3. 



Passeres. 



generic character. 



Bill conic, pointed, notched, nearly triangular at the base, a 

 little inclining at the tip. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Shining green, beneath yellowish green; wing coverts violet: 

 frontlet and upper part of the back black. 



Var ^. Crown and chin violet : neck, and sometimes rump, orange. 



Tan AGRA Tricolor: viridis splendens, subtus viridi-flavescens, 



tectricibus alarum violaceis, capirostro dorsoque 

 superiore nigris uropygio fulvo. Lath. Ind. Orw 



Tanagra Tricolor /3. Tangara cayanensis varia cyanocephalos. 



Briss. Sup, p. 62. t. 4i. /, 2. 



