MEXICAN TANAGER* 



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of a beautiful scarlet, the tips of the quills, which 

 are pale red, excepted : legs dusky : the female is 

 brown, tinged with yellow. Inhabits Carolina and 

 Virginia. 



MEXICAN TANAGER. 

 (Tanagra mexicana.) 



Ta. rubra y capite alis caudaque amethystinis , cervice teclricibuS' 



que alarum viridibus, scapularibus flavis virescente marginatis. 

 Red Tanager, with the head, wings, and tail, of an amethyst 



colour ; the top of the neck and wing-coverts greenish ; the 



scapulars yellow, with greenish margins. 

 Tanagra mississippensis. /3. Lath. Ind. Orn, 1. 421. 5. — GmeL 



Si/st. NaL 1, 889. y. 

 Cardinalis mexicanus. Briss. Orn. 3. 46. 2/. 

 Mexican Tanager. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 219. 5. b. 



Inhabits Mexico : its beak is ash-coloured : the 

 irides are white : the head, wings, and tail, are of 

 a fine amethyst colour : the hind parts of the neck 

 are green : the under part of the neck and the 

 rump are crimson : the wing-coverts are reddish 

 green: the scapulars are yellowish, all the feathers 

 edged with greenish : tip of the tail pale red : legs 

 greyish violet. 



