SAUCEROTTEA. — HYLOCHARIS. 399 



Suppl. Troch. pi. 56, 1SS7 ; Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 220, 

 1S92 (Quonga). 

 Saucerotfea cupreicaiida Braboiirne & Cliubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 115, 

 no. 1104, 1912. 



Adult. Back and upper wing-coverts coppery bronze-green, 

 becoming bright green on the top of the head, throat, breast, and 

 sides o£ the neck ; lower back and upper tail-coverts coppery 

 bronze ; tail rufous, becoming more coppery bronze towards the 

 tips of the feathers ; flight-quills brown ; abdomen and sides of 

 the body, as well as the under wing-coverts, dull bronze ; under 

 tail-coverts rufous ; thighs white. 



Total length 88 mm., culmen 17, wing 50, tail 25. 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected by 

 Mr. McGonnell at Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 50 mm. 

 • Breeding-season. Unknown. 



JS^est. Unrecorded. 



2^^ygs. Undescribcd. 



Range. Confined to British Guiana : Mount Horaima (il/c- 

 Connell collection') ; Merume Mountains, Mount Roraima, Quonga 

 (^Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus HYLOCHARIS Boie. 



HylocJiaris Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 546. Type H. sapphirina (Gmel.), 



In this genus the tail is rounded, the bill is straight,the culmen 

 l)are almost to the base, and the nasal covers are exposed. 



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