ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
TANAGRA CANA, Swainson. 
Mr. Swainson gives Brazil as the native country of this bird. 
We possess it from Bogota, and have received specimens of what 
we consider to be only a variety of it from Mr. Kirk, our cor- 
respondent in Tobago, to whom also we are indebted for the nest 
and eggs now represented. “ The blue bird builds on middle sized 
trees, and lays from three to four eggs.” In structure, the nest 
shows considerable resemblance to that of some of the buntings, and 
t e colour and marking of the eggs is somewhat intermediate be- 
tween that of the buntings and finches. The eggs varied, as repre- 
sented in our plate ; and a third was nearly intermediate in the 
lstiibution of the markings. The foundation of the nest is com- 
pose of dried leaves, roots, small sticks, &c. The upper part is 
ormed of the leaves of some reed like plant, intermixed with slender 
oo s and tendiils of some creeper. The inside showed almost no 
ng, and is formed of the same dried reeds, and a few finer tendiils 
a single feather. Our plate is slightly less than the original, 
e interior diameter being nearly three inches. 
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