. Animals in menageries. 2/^ ; tail, beyond, 1 ; ditto, base 2\ ; tarsus ^^.The| mixture of rich colours in this beautiful bird renders itsaccurate description very difficult; some of the feathers whichform the black collar are tipt with cinereous, while the lowerpart of the back seems as if it was gilded. QQ. Tanagra serioptera. Light cinereous green : back and scapulars darker :quills and tail blue green : shoulder and lesser wingcovers silky white, tinged with violet. Inhabits gardens and cultivated tracts in Demerara. Total length 6i inches; bill, gape -^; wings 3i; tail, be-yond, 1^ ; bas
. Animals in menageries. 2/^ ; tail, beyond, 1 ; ditto, base 2\ ; tarsus ^^.The| mixture of rich colours in this beautiful bird renders itsaccurate description very difficult; some of the feathers whichform the black collar are tipt with cinereous, while the lowerpart of the back seems as if it was gilded. QQ. Tanagra serioptera. Light cinereous green : back and scapulars darker :quills and tail blue green : shoulder and lesser wingcovers silky white, tinged with violet. Inhabits gardens and cultivated tracts in Demerara. Total length 6i inches; bill, gape -^; wings 3i; tail, be-yond, 1^ ; base 2^^ ; tarsus ^^. This is one of the small groupcomposing the bishop tanagers: it is immediately distin-guished from episcopus, inornata, ceelestes, and ornata, andone or two more of the same section, by the very peculiar co-lour of the lesser wing covers, which are violet white, delicatelytinged round their edges with violet blue. Both sexes, sent byMr. Schomburgh, are coloured alike. 314 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUAliTER. 100. Leptonyx melanotis. Above, sparrow brown, variedwith blackish stripes on the head,grey on the neck, and rufous onthe back; beneath, white, im- -^maculate: ear feathers very large,spreading, and black: sides of thehead with a broad white band:under wing covers, and margin of the wings, bright yel-low: tail feathers narrow, black, tipt with white. (^ ) Inhabits the plains of South Brazil. Mus. Nost. Size rather less than a sparrow. Total length 5^ inches;bill, in front ^; ditto, gape ^; wings 2^^; tarsus 5§ ; hindtoe and claw ii; middle ditto J^. Upper mandible brown;lower, pale buff: front and crown black, mixed with grey, andwith rufous on the nape : neck and its sides almost entirelygrey : rest of the upper feathers dark rufous in the middle :wings, towards their outer edge, strongly tinged with yellow :legs pale.
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