F emale.
ftreaks : quills brown, with whitifh margins : the tail a trifle
forked, brown, edged with yellowiAi white : legs dulky Hefti-colour
: claws brown.
The female is of a dirty ferruginous olive on the upper parts,
fpotted with brown : and beneath of a whitifh yellow.
Place. This fpecies is found in the neighbourhood of the Caucajian
mountains, and Teflis in Georgia : it frequents the Chrijl’s-
thorn *, and makes the neft on the branches of it, which being
well defended with ftiarp fpines, fecures the brood from birds of
prey. The food chiefly conflits of the feeds of the fame plant.
It is a folitary bird, and the voice not greatly different from that
of the greater Titmouje.
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BLACKHEADED
T.
Le Mordoré, Buf. eif. iv. p. 235.
Tangara jaune à tête noire de Cayenne, PI. enl. 809. f. 2.
D e s c r i p t io n . T E N G T H feven inches. Bill ftout, dulky black : the head,
wings, and tail, are of a ftne gloffy black ; on the inner edge
of the wing a dafli of white : the reft of the body of a flne reddifh
rufous colour, deepeft on the fore part of the neck and breaft :
the tail is rounded : the legs brown.
Place. Inhabits Guiana, where it is rare.
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FURROW-
CLAWED T.
D e s c r i p t io n .
L’Onglet, Buf. eif. iv. p. 256.
T E N G T H feven inches. The head is ftriped with black
and blue : the upper part of the back blackilh, the lower
* Rhamnus paliurus, Lin.
6 bright
bright orange : the upper tail coverts olive brown : upper wing
coverts, quills, and tail, black, edged with blue : the under parts
yellow. A Angularity belongs to this bird; which is, that each
claw has a furrow on the Tides, parallel to the edge,
Suppofed to inhabit fome part of South America.
Tangara noir, & Tangara roux, Buf. eif. iv. p. 257.
Tangara noir d'Amerique, PI. enl. 179. f. 2. (the male.)
Le Tangaroux de Cayenne, PI. enl. 711. (the female.)
T E N G T H from Ax inches and a half to feven inches. The
male is wholly black, except a fpot of white at the inner
bend of the wing.
The female is wholly rufous, inclining to aAi-colour beneath * :
the bill dulky : legs yellowiAi.
Thefe are common at Guiana, in the more open fpots : live on
fmall fruits and infects, like the reft of the genus: have a fhrill
voice, but not what may be called a fong : generally feen in
pairs, two and two together, and never in Aocks.
Tanagra Brafilienfis, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 316. 15.
Le Tangara bleu du Breiil, Brif. orn. iii. p. 9. 4' pA 1 * f* i'T-/ * enl.
179. f. 1.
Le Turquin, Buf. otf. iv. p. 25S.
Guirajenoia, Raii Syn. p* 170.— Will. om. p. 241.
Cj I Z E of a Chaffinch: length Ax inches. Bill blackifh : the
head, fore part of the neck, and lower part of the back, cinereous
blue : the hind part of the neck, upper part of the back,
Flack*
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GUIANA T.
D e s c r i p t io n *
F ema l e .
Place*
16.
TURQUOISE T .
D e s c r i p t io n *
* The tail feems much longer in this laft, than in the male.
V ol. II. G g and