BLUE HEADED TANAGER. 
Le Tangara yarie 'a texe bleue 
de Cayenne. Bris. Orn. Suppl. p. 62 . 
Le Tricolor. Buff. Ois. iv. p. 27 6. 
Blue headed Tanager. Lath . ii. p. 235. Var. A. 
This very beautiful bird is of the same family of the Paradise Tanager, 
described in page 3 2 of this work. Whether it is the male or female of 
the green-headed Tanager, is not ascertained ; but there is not the least doubt 
of their being of the same species, and differing only in sex. 
This subject is represented of the size of life. It came from Cayenne, 
an island of South America, situated at the mouth of the river Amazons, 
called by the French, Equinoctial France, from its being nearly under the 
Equinoctial line. That described by Mons. Brisson, from the cabinet of 
Madame de Bourjourdain, came likewise from Cayenne. But the bird 
which the Count de Buffon describes, from the cabinet of Mons. Aubri, 
rector of St. Louis, is said to have come from the Straits of Magellan; 
but it is not probable this bird should inhabit the torrid climate of Cayenne, 
and likewise the frozen tracts of Patagonia. 
