. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. IV' ill TANAGRES whc/e Spec!a Is net decided. low, fpotted with black; the utider-part of th€ head and neck, the throat, and the breail, black; the wings and tail compofed of quills of blackifli brown, and feme edged exteriorly with green; the legs are of a dull cinereous. It does not appear from this Ihort defcription whether this bird ought to be referred to the Bulfinches or to the Tanagres. [A] Fourthly, 7'he Bird/mailer than the Gold/inch^ or the ^latoiztli of Br
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. IV' ill TANAGRES whc/e Spec!a Is net decided. low, fpotted with black; the utider-part of th€ head and neck, the throat, and the breail, black; the wings and tail compofed of quills of blackifli brown, and feme edged exteriorly with green; the legs are of a dull cinereous. It does not appear from this Ihort defcription whether this bird ought to be referred to the Bulfinches or to the Tanagres. [A] Fourthly, 7'he Bird/mailer than the Gold/inch^ or the ^latoiztli of Brazil, according to Seba, The half of its head is decorated with a white creft; the neck is of a light red, and the bread of a fine purple; the wings deep red and purple; the back and the tail yellowifti black, and the belly light yellow ; the bill and legs are yellow. Seba adds, that it inhabits the mountains of Tet- xocarw in Brazil. We Ihall obfei ve, firft, that the name ^la- toztli, which Seba gives to this bird, is not Bra- zUian, but Mexican ; and fecondly, that the mountains of Tetzocano are in Mexico, and not in Brazil. It is probable therefore that he was miftaken in calling it a Brazilian bird. Laftly, from the defcription and the figure given by Seba, we fliould rather range this bird in the genus of the Manakins than in that of the Tanagres. [BJ [A] This is the Tellomi Tartagre of Latham, the Tanagra Flava of Gmelin, and the Bra/ilienjis of Driflbn. [B] This is the White-headed Tavagre, or Tanagra Alhifvens of Latham, the Tanagra Leuccccphala of Gmolin, and the Tanagra Brafdicnjis LeuitK'phalus of Brilfon. 15 Fifthly,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray .
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