. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . male from Brazil, but itshortly afterwards died; whether it has since appearedin the market I am unable to say. Bi,ArK-nELHED Tanager {Euphonia cat/ana). bluish-black. wHth a yellow patch on each sideof the breast ; under i\-ing-coverts and inner marginsof flight.^ white; bill black; feet dark bri>«-n. Femaleabove bright greenish olive, with a dark grev patchon the nape; below grey; chin and sides of body below TANAGEHS. 79 yellowish olive; under wihg-eoverts white. Habitat,Caveiin*, Guiana, and Lower jVinazonia (Sclater). Desmarost says:—This b
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . male from Brazil, but itshortly afterwards died; whether it has since appearedin the market I am unable to say. Bi,ArK-nELHED Tanager {Euphonia cat/ana). bluish-black. wHth a yellow patch on each sideof the breast ; under i\-ing-coverts and inner marginsof flight.^ white; bill black; feet dark bri>«-n. Femaleabove bright greenish olive, with a dark grev patchon the nape; below grey; chin and sides of body below TANAGEHS. 79 yellowish olive; under wihg-eoverts white. Habitat,Caveiin*, Guiana, and Lower jVinazonia (Sclater). Desmarost says:—This bird lives in the more opentracts of Guiara, in the rice-fields in the vicinity ofhuman habitations. G. Lintz, of Hamburg, imported two ejcamples ot this yelloH ; below ashy; sides of body and under tall-coverts veilowish olive; under wingcoverts Brazil (Sclater). Banneister that this species appears to be rare,but he gives no timching- its Russ does not mention it. r-^--. .i^^C^ Black-backed Tanageh. Tanager in 1871, and in 1875 Miss Hagenbeck sent twospecimens to Dr. Russ ; it dees not. however, appear tohave come into the Ixjndon markets hitherto. Lead-coloured {Ili/pophcra diah/hra).Above dark bronzy blui.*--!! green; forehead yellow;below yellow; upper part of throat green ; under wing-coverts while; flights and tail below dark ashy; billdark leaden; feet brown. Female above olive-green;forehead, rump, and margins of wings and tail more The London Zoologicnl Gard-ns acquired a pair bypurchase m August, 1892. Jamaica Tanager (Pyrrhuphonia Jamaica). Above bluish-grey; below paler; middle of abdomenyellowish; axiliaries pale yellow; under wing-covertsand inner webs of flights white; under tail-covertswhitish; bill dnrk leaden: fe<t dark brown. Female:ibove pale green, head bluish-grey; below pale bluish-crev ; the flanlcs washed with green. Habitat, Jamaica. 80 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. Accordin
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