Green-headed Tanager

13.5 cm. Head and chin turquoise green. Lower throat black. Yellowish-green on the back and sides of the neck. Center of back and scapulars black. Rump yellow-orange. Upper tail coverts bright green. Wing coverts dark blue. Primaries black edged with light green. The rest of underparts are dark blue turquoise becoming green on flanks and crissum. <NFemale is duller. Call "zik zik zik". "zii zii. . . ." . Dawn song a repetition of "tzri, si uit", 1-2 notes <10> sec, similar to song of /Phaethornis eurynome Parker in ^119 . Forages in family groups for fruit from subcanopy to crowns of trees within the forest, comes down sometimes at the forest edge. Found sometimes together with /Tangara desmaresti . Rio de Janeiro | November-January: Paraguay | November, December ^159 Common in primary and secondary humid rain forest and forest edge, parks, plantations, in fruit trees of gardens etc. Throughout the littoral and serras, to 1200 meters 3690 Calls, Floresta Nacional do Rio Preto, ES, LNS 113243, recorded by C. Marantz: 939 Calls, Reserva Biologica de Sooretama, ES, LNS 113343, recorded by C. Marantz.: 9903 Calls, October 20, 2001. Reserva Ecological Guapiacu, Estado Rio de Janeiro. 28<91>C, cloudy.: 3649 >: