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BLUE TANAGER. 



wing-coverts have the greatest inclination for 

 blue : the legs are ash-coloured : the female has 

 her head, neck, and breast, blue green ; the back 

 and wing-coverts brown, with an oblique greyish 

 bar across the latter ; quills and tail black: under 

 parts of the body grey : assembles in large flocks 

 about the skirts of forests : it roosts on the palm 

 at night, and feeds on small fruits : it has only a 

 disagreeable note, not worthy the name of a song. 



BLUE TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra casrulea,) 



Ta, tola ccnrulea, rostro atro, pedihiis spadiceis* 

 Tanager wholly blue, with the beak dusky and feet chesnut. 

 Tanagra cserulea. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. Sgi.-^Lath. Ind. Orn, 

 1 . 427. 27. 



Le Pape-bleue. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 3. 495. 

 Moineau bleu de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 20Z.f, 2. 

 Blue Tanager. Lath, Gen, Syn. 3. 234. 28. 



This bird, which is the size of the Domestic 

 Finch, has the whole of its plumage blue: its. 

 beak dusky, and legs reddish brown : it is in 

 length about five inches, Natiye of Cayenne. 



