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JACARINA TANAGER. 
Tanagra Jacarina. 
Le Tangara noir du Bresil. 
Le Jacarinx. 
Jacarini. 
Jacarini Tanager. 
Lin. Syst. i. p. 3 14. No. 4. 
Bris.om. iii. p. 28. No. 16. 
Buff. ois. iv. p. 293. 
Edw. p. 3 0 6. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 23 8. 3 4. 
This subject is the male, and is represented on the plate of the size of life. 
It is a native of the Brazils, and is called Jacarini; by the Portugueze 
Negretto, from the general colour of the plumage being black, though 
exceedingly glossy, like burnished steel, with green and blue reflections, 
as viewed in different lights. 
The female differs so much in the colour of her plumage, being 
entirely grey, that she may be taken for a different species. 
This bird is very common in Guiana, in open situations, more 
especially such as are newly cultivated, though never met with in large 
forests ; it lodges in low trees, especially the coffee-tree. 
The male is distinguished by a very singular circumstance ; that of 
springing upwards from the branch it first perched on, and then falls on 
the same spot, first resting on one foot, and then on the other, alternately, 
at each leap, when it takes its flight to another bush, repeating the same 
exercise. 
1 his is the manner in which he addresses the female, as each bound 
is attended with a plaintive cry expressive of pleasure, and likewise by an 
expansion of the tail. 
