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Title: Foreign birds for cage and aviary
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London, "The Feathered world"
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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latter cafe only a singleexample of the male, obtained from Lintz, of Hamburg;it is not noted as having reached any ZoologiiilGardens, Gold-fronted Tanager (Euphonia Havifmnt).Dark olive-green ; forehead bio.idly yellow, boundedat back by a bhick line ; crown and nape blue; underparts olive-green, sides of head darker; the throat.yellowish ; axillaries pal-? yellow ; under wing-covertsand inner edges of wing-featlier.-i wdiitish; bill dark1-,aden-grey; feet broivn. Female rather paler, butotherwise similar. Habitat, Lesser Antilles. I am unable to discover any notes whatever res;>ect-ing the wild life of this Tanager. Two specimens of E. flavifrons from Dominica werepresented to the Ix)ndon Zoological Gardens in May,1889, by Mrs. Herbert, but I am not aware of any otherinstances of its imjwrtation. Greenish Tanager (Euphonia chlorolica).Above pui-plish-black; forehead to middle of crownyellow; below .yellow with the throat purplish-black ;wings below black with a large white patch
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78 FOREIGN BIRDS FOR CAGE AND AVIARY. on the inner webs of the flights; tail belowblack, a large wliite patch on the inner websof the two outermost feathers; bill and feet black.Female above f;rej--gre€n, the front and rump yellower;below also yellower, ashy at centre of breast andabdomen; flanks and under tail-coverts jKile yellor>v;under wing-coverts and inner nnrgins of wing-featherswhitish. Habitat, (iaiana. Brazil, Faraway, Bolivia,•and Eastern Peru : the Guianan form being typical, theothers being fiubdividcd into two or three local racesor sub-species. Respecting this species also T have found no noteson the life-history. The Zoological Society purchaseda male in August 1892. The n.ime appears to nie mis-leading ; it applies better to the female than the male. Dwarf Tanager (Euphonia minuta). Glossy greenish black, purplish on neck and irpperback; a broad yellow front:iI band; throat purjjli.ihblack; breast and front of abdomen yellow; hinderabdomen and under tail-covert

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