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BtACK-CROWNED TANAGER. 



Found in Guiana and Brasil : size of the Hedge 

 Warbler: beak and legs dusky: the top of the 

 head and sides black ; sides of the neck as far as 

 the wings also black : the upper parts of the neck, 

 body, wings, and tail, blueish ash ; the two last 

 darkest: between the beak and eyes a spot of 

 white : all the under parts of the body of a silvery 

 white : the female is destitute of the black mark- 

 ings on the head and neck : the upper parts of 

 her body are blueish ash, and the under dirty 

 white. 



BLACK-CROWNED TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra raelanictera.) 



T K^ferrugineo-Jusca suhtus lutea, pileo genisque nigris, alls albo 



longitudinaliter striatis. 

 Rusty brown Tanager, beneath yellowish, with the top of the 



head and cheeks black, the wings longitudinally striped with 



white. 



Tanagra melanictera, Gmel, Syst, Nat, 1. 898. — Lath, Ind, 



Orn, 1. 423. 12. 

 Black- crowned Tanager. Lath, Gen. Syn, 3. 223. 12. 



The Black-crowned Tanager is thus described 

 by Dr. Latham. " Size of the Common Bunting: 

 length seven inches and a half: beak of a livid 

 colour ; the sides of the under mandible bent in- 

 wards, and the end of the upper one a trifle mar- 

 gined ; the base furnished with a few hairs : irides 



