302 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



shape of the greater upper wing-coverts, which have stiffened shafts. 

 Tlie bill is depressed at the base and hooked at the tip of the 

 Tipper mandible, the width at the base is about four-fifths the length 

 of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the second, third, 

 ft)urth, and fifth primaries longest, the first about equal in length 

 to that of the sixth. The tail is proportionately short and square 

 at the tip and the tarsus about equal in length to the middle toe 

 and claw. Coloration : male and female entirely different. 



543. Xipholena punicea. 

 PoBiPADOUR Chatterer. 



Tnr(his punicevs Pallas, Adumbr. Vroeg's Catal. p. 2, no. 09, 1764. 



^iplwlena j^ompadora Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. G93, 1848; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 305 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Merume 

 Mts., River Atapurau) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 387, 

 1888 (Camacusa, Atapurow Biver, Bartica Grove) ; Beebe, Our 

 Search for a Wilderness, p. 176, 1910 (Hoorie Creek). 



A/jjJiolena punicea Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 323, no. 3297, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Head, entire back, upper wing-coverts, tail, throat, 

 nud entire under surface deep glossy purple, rather paler on the 

 innermost secondaries and tail ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and flight-quills, above and below, pure white, with blackish- 

 brown tips to some of the primary-quills ; axillaries and under 

 'wing-coverts also pure white ; lower aspect of tail rose-pink. 



Total length 188 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 125, tail 70, 

 tarsus 22. 



The specimen from which the above description is taken was 

 collected by Mr. McConnell on the Cako River in October 1898 

 during his expedition to Mount Roraima. 



Adult female. General colour above dark earth-brown, including 

 the head, back, upper wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills darker and in- 

 clining to black ; outer edges of the major upper wing-coverts 

 and secondary-quills fringed with white, inner webs of flight- 

 quills margined with white ; tail dark brown ; sides of face, throat, 

 and under surface greyish brown, darker on the breast and paler 

 on the vent ; under tail-coverts pale grey ; under surface of 

 flight-quills pale brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of 

 tail also pale brown. Wing 117 mm. 



