306 



BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus H^MATODERUS Bonap. 



Hamatotlerus Bonap. Ann. Sc. Xal. (ser. 4), Zool. t. i. p. 134, 1854. 

 Ty]X' H. ?nilitaris (Lath.). 



Fig. 120. — Scdmatoderus militaris. 



This monotypic trenns is conspicuous by its large size and 

 gorgeous colour. The l>ill is proportionately short, wide at the 

 base, and hooked at the tip. The wing is nearly twice the length 

 of the tail, and the middle toe and claw exceed the length of the 

 tarsus. Coloration : male and female different. 



546. Hsematoderus militaris. 



Crimson Fruit-eater. 



Comcias milifaris Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxvii, 1801 (Cayenne). 

 Tlircno'edes viilitaris Cab. in Schomb. Eei.s. Guian. ill. p. 690, 1848. 

 Hcematoderus militaris Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 305 ; Selater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xiv. p. 395, 1888 ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 324, 



no. 3309, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above and below crimson-red, with 

 white bases to the feathers; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, flight- 

 quills, and tail-feathers blackish brown ; under surface of quills 

 and lower as])ect of tail gre^-ish brown. 



Total length 350 mm., exposed culmeu 25, wing 221, tail 127, 

 tarsus 28. 



