. Illustrations of ornithology . u) JardiM^ Q. c te/?i<r/t tc/f/w/rt^. 5 uj Jar at v, CJ- Otewz&pz* fct/yt/ tz fa*j. ARREMON TORQUATUS, Tanager. PLATE LIX. A. olivaceus, capite medio, nuchaque incanis; vitta oculari fasciaque jugulari nigris;abdomine albido. Silent Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. vi. p. 22.—Shatv, Gen. Zool. vol. x. part ii. p. < silens, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. p. torquatus, Vieill. Gall, plate 78. This bird is a native of Guiana and Cayenne, and constitutes the genusArremon of Vieillot. It was separated by him from the Linnean Tan


. Illustrations of ornithology . u) JardiM^ Q. c te/?i<r/t tc/f/w/rt^. 5 uj Jar at v, CJ- Otewz&pz* fct/yt/ tz fa*j. ARREMON TORQUATUS, Tanager. PLATE LIX. A. olivaceus, capite medio, nuchaque incanis; vitta oculari fasciaque jugulari nigris;abdomine albido. Silent Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. vi. p. 22.—Shatv, Gen. Zool. vol. x. part ii. p. < silens, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. p. torquatus, Vieill. Gall, plate 78. This bird is a native of Guiana and Cayenne, and constitutes the genusArremon of Vieillot. It was separated by him from the Linnean Tana-gers, a division possessing an immense variety and modification of charac-ters, and which now affords types for many genera. Very little appears tobe known of its habits, and we had no notes accompanying our specimen. The size is about that of the common Chaffinch. The forehead, cheeks,a broad streak over each eye, and a narrow collar upon the upper part ofthe breast, are black; the back and sides of the neck are bluish-grey, andthat colour is continued upwards in th


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