•io.S BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



B. Smaller, mng less than 130 mm. ; abdomen 

 vmiform yellow, no red cross-band; thighs 



green T... P. tiridis, £ , p. 459. 



h. Crown of head, sides of face, and throat 



chestnut in contrast to the male P. v in' J is, P , p. 459. 



313. Pteroglossus roraimse. 

 Mouirr Bobaima Aracari. 



Fteroijlo$sui roraimcs Braboiime & Chubb. Ann. k Mag. Xat. Hist. TS) 



X. p. 201. 1912 \ Mount Eorairaa) ; iid. B. S. Amer. i. p. 157, 



no. 1544. 1912. 

 Fteroglo^ui aracari Tnec Linn.), Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. 



p. 720, 1S4.S : Salvin, Ibis, 1SS6, p. 65 (Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 13S, 1891 (Demerara). 

 ? Pteroglossus torquatus Beebe " nee GmeL), Our Search for a Wilderness, 



p. 174, 1910. 



Adult male. Head, tliroat. and neck all round glossy black ; 

 upper Ijack, wings, and tail bronze-green ; inner webs of quills 

 brown with pale edges ; lower back and rump deep red ; breast 

 and abdomen citron-yellow divided by a broad band of .^carlet ; 

 thighs duskv brown : under tail-coverts like the abdomen, but in 

 some specimens mixed with red ; under wing-coverts whiiish ; 

 lower mandible and ridge of culmen black, remainder of upper 

 mandible white. 



Total length 450 mm., bill from gape 116, wing 154, tail 153, 

 tarsus 37. 



The description of the male is taken from an example collected 

 by Mr. McConnell at Mount Roraima in October 1898, and is the 

 type of the species. 



Adult female. Similar in the colour o£ the plumage to the adult 

 male. Wing 149 mm. 



Tbe female from which the description is taken is in the Briti.sh 

 Museum, and was collected by Whitely at Bartica on December 

 16th, lf5^() — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. It nests in holes in trees (Schomhurgk). 



Kggs. It lays two eggs (^Schomhurgk). 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima (type of the species), 

 Ituribi-si River, Supenaam River (McConnell collection) : Bartica 

 (Whitelg). 



Extraliniital Range. Venezuela. 



Habits. According to Sehomburgk (Rcis. Guian. iii. p. 720) 



