. A general synopsis of birds . rump : quills, andtail, brown, edged with white : throat, and breaft, of a fine yel-low : belly white : legs The female has the wings, and tail, dufky, edged with olive : under fides of the body pale Inhabits Cayenne. Found alfo at New York f, in North America. MISSISSIPI T. DtSCRIPTIOr Le Tangara du Miffiflipi, Buf. oif. iv. p. 252.—PL enl. Muf. Lev. Muf. **TP HIS is fomewhat bigger than the Scarlet Tanager. Thebill larger in proportion, of a brown colour, and both man-dibles fomewhat curved inwards. It differs likewife from
. A general synopsis of birds . rump : quills, andtail, brown, edged with white : throat, and breaft, of a fine yel-low : belly white : legs The female has the wings, and tail, dufky, edged with olive : under fides of the body pale Inhabits Cayenne. Found alfo at New York f, in North America. MISSISSIPI T. DtSCRIPTIOr Le Tangara du Miffiflipi, Buf. oif. iv. p. 252.—PL enl. Muf. Lev. Muf. **TP HIS is fomewhat bigger than the Scarlet Tanager. Thebill larger in proportion, of a brown colour, and both man-dibles fomewhat curved inwards. It differs likewife from thatbird, in having the wings and tail of the fame red colour as thereft of the plumage, though rather deeper: legs reddifh. -* In the collection of Major Davies. t Mr. Pennant. — From their being found at this lalt. place, and my havingfuch authority for defcribing both fexes, I muft conclude that the fpecies is dif-tinft ; otherwife I fhould have fufpe&ed it to have been the female of the laft-cdefcribed. This ^nswveaa&c/y. /eimaaev. N R. 21$ This is found in the neighbourhood of the river MiJJlJJlpi, andis faid to fing very agreeably, though much louder than the Scar-let Tanager. It is faid to collect againft winter a quantity ofmaize ■, and is fo careful of its hoard, as feldom to flir from theplace where it has ftored it up, except to drink : and the quan-tity has been known to equal a bufhel. It fecures this winter-magazine by covering it with dry leaves, only leaving a hole foritfelf to enter *. Place ako Manners. Br. Muf. C I Z E of the laft. Bill brown : the whole plumage variegatedwith crimfon and greenifh buff-colour; the laft occupying inpatches the nape of the neck, the whole* of the wing, lower partof the back, and middle of the belly: the tail is half crimfon andhalf greenifh buff: legs pale brown. This and the former feem to be the fame bird in different pe-riods of age. It is moft likely that the laft-defcribed is theyoung bird, though the circum
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