RED-HEADED Tx\NAGER. 



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edge with deep blue : head and upper parts of the 

 body bright green : the lesser wing-coverts glossy 

 sea-green, the rest green : the quills dusky, mar- 

 gined with blue : throat pure black : fore-part of 

 the neck yellow : rest of the under parts of the 

 body yellowish green: the two middle tail-feathers 

 green, the rest dusky, edged with blueish : legs 

 brown. Inhabits Mexico, Peru, and Brasil. 



RED-HEADED TANAGER. 



(Tanagra gularis.) 



Ta. nigra, suhtus alba, capite riihro, jugulo purpureo. 

 Black Tanager, beneath white, with a red head and purple 

 jugulum. 



Tanagra gularis. Lin, Si/st. Nat. 1. 31 6. 13.? — Gmel. Syst, 



Nat. 1. 894.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 425. 20. 

 Cardinalis Americanus. Briss. Orii. App. 6j.pl. A»f. 4. 

 Le Rouge Cap. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 2^7. 

 Tangara brun d'Amerique. Biff. PI. Enl. I55.f. 2. 

 Red-headed Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 228. 21. 



This beautiful bird has the head, chin, and 

 throat crimson, on the latter sprinkled with pur- 

 ple, and ending in a point near the breast : the 

 upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, which is 

 rounded, are of a fine shining black : the under 

 parts are pure snowy white : the female ? has the 

 upper parts brown. Occasionally found in Cayenne 

 and Guiana. 



