SPOTTED Grvt:iJN TANAGER. 



455 



This, like the Crested Tanager, is found only 

 in the open places of Guiana, where it is very 

 rare : it is in length seven inches: its beak is 

 black, with the base of the under mandible whitish: 

 the front of the head, the cheeks, chin, and fore- 

 part of the neck, black, the colour ending in a 

 point on the breast : the prevailing colour of the 

 plumage is cinereous, with the under parts palest, 

 and the quills and tail darkest: legs dusky : the 

 female has the head and fore-parts brown, where 

 the male is black * and the plumage is pale yel- 

 lowish ash on the upper parts ; the under parts 

 are the same, but the colours are much paler. 



SPOTTED GREEN TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra punctata.) 



Ta. viridis nigro punctata, suhtus Jiavescentc-albida. 



Green Tanager spotted with black, beneath yellowish white. 



Tanagra punctata. Lin, Syst, Nat. 1. 3l6. 21. — Gmel. Syst, 



Nat, 1. 897'—Briss, Orn, 8. IQ.^/. 4./. 2,— Lath. Lcd. Orn, 



1. 425. 19. 

 Le Sayacou. B/jff. Hist. Nat. Ols. 4. 288. 

 Tangara vert tachete. Buf. PI. Enl. 133./ 1. 

 Spotted green Titmouse. Edwards. 262. 

 Spotted green Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 228. 20. 



Length four inches and a half : beak and legs 

 brown : the upper parts of the body green varied 



