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golden-yellow; tail black; beak, legs and feet black. Total 

 length yi inches, of which the tail measures 3J inches. 



Adult female : Similar as to plumage, but if the afore- 

 mentioned skins are correctly sexed, she is slightly the larger 

 bird and her bill is a trifle shorter than that of the male. 



Immature plumage: From my specimen this appears to be 

 similar to the adnlt birds, with the exception of the wing and 

 tail feathers, which are dull olive ; the other areas of colour are 

 similar, but less intense in hue. The white margins of the 

 coverts, primaries, and secondaries are much narrower than those 

 of adult birds, and the bill had a lightish streak down the centre 

 of the upper mandible, this becomes entirely black when the bird 

 is fully mature. 



Habitat: Northern Columbia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, 



Cayenne and Upper Rio 

 Negro (B. M. Cat.). The 

 skins, nests, and eggs, here- 

 in described were taken in 

 Georgetown, British Guiana. 

 In British Guiana it is 

 known as the Yellow Plan- 

 tian Eater. 



Breeding: I do not know 

 of any instance of any 

 species of Hangnest having 

 been bred in the United 

 Kingdom. In their native 

 haunts they nest in colonies 

 and suspend their elongated 

 purse-shaped nests from the 

 branches of trees, but des- 

 cription is not needed as 

 accompanying figure of one 

 of the aforementioned nests 

 makes this both unneces- 

 sary and superfluous. The 

 eggs are very pale bluish- 

 green, lined and spotted 

 with black. 



Nest of Yellow Hangnest. 



