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FRINGILLID^. 



Yellow Tanager, with the middle of the dorsal feathers black ; 

 the capistrum and a spot on the throat black ; the breast and 

 flanks blue. 



Inhabits Brasil. Length of the preceding : round 

 the beak velvety black : and a patch of the same co- 

 lour on the throat : the head and cheeks are beautiful 

 bright yellow : the edges of all the feathers of the 

 upper parts of the body are also bright yellow, with 

 their centres black : the wings and the tail are 

 black, with broad grass-green edges : the breast and 

 the flanks are azure-blue, becoming greenish on the 

 belly, the middle of which is whitish : the beak and 

 the legs are black. The female has the colour less 

 pure and paler : the beak is surrounded by a dark 

 black mark ; the thoracic patch is dusky ash ; the ven- 

 tral line is broader. 



Sp. 14. Ta. vittata. Temm, PI. Col. 48. 



Ta. azurea dorso saturatiore, infra rufescente ; alis caudaque 

 cinereo-cyaneis marginibus paliioribMs ; regione oculari auri" 

 busque nigris. 



Azure Tanager with the back deepest, beneath reddish ; with the 

 wings and tail ashy-blue with pale edges j the region of the 

 eyes and the ears black. 



Inhabits Brasil. Length five inches and a half : 

 the region of the eyes and the ears is black : the male 

 has the top of the head, the nape, the bend of the 

 wing, and the rump, very bright azure-blue : the back 

 is deep blue : the tail and the wings are ashy-blue, 

 edged with brighter : the throat is yellowish-white : 

 the rest of the under parts are reddish : the beak is 

 black, and the legs brown. The female has the eye- 

 brows and bend of the wings azure-blue : and the 



