PACHYSYLVIA. VIEEOLANIUS. 399 



River, Makanria River [McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, 

 Merume Mountains, Kamakusa, Bartica' ( Whitehj) ; ? Aremu 

 River {Beehe). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus VIREOLANIUS Du Bus. 



Vireolanins Du Bus, Esquisses Ornlth. 'pi. 26, 1S50. Tyj-ie V. meli- 

 tophrijs Du Bus. 



Fig. lol. — To show the marivings on the side of the face. 



The species that eomiu-ise .this genus are brightly coloured. 

 The bill is compressed, its depth at the nostrils is equal to more 

 than half the length of the exposed culmen, and the tip of the 

 upper mandible is sharply hooked. The wing is rounded, the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixtli primaries are longest and equal, the third 

 is aljout equal in length to the seventh, the second about equal to 

 the ninth, and the first about three-fifths the length of the 

 second. The tail is square at the tip and about six-sevenths the 

 length of. the wing. The tarsus is nearly twice the length of 

 the ex[iosed culmen. Coloration : male and female similar. 



600. Vireolanius chlorigaster. 

 Bonaparte's Greenlet. 



Vireolanius chlorirjaste)' Bonap. Couipt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 381, ISoJ. 



(Cayenne j ; Jiruljuurne & Chubb, B. S. Ainer. i. p. 351, no. Hoi)?, 



1912. 

 Vireolanius Icucotis (nee Swains.) Salviu, Ibis, 1878, p. 415, pi. xi. ; id. 



& Godm. op. cit. 1882, p. 77; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. 



p. 315, 1883; Salviu, Ibis, 1S85, p. 205 (Merume Mts., Bartica 



Grove). 



Adult female. Back, wings, and tail dark green, jialer and in- 

 clining to yellowish vw tlie margins of the greater upper wing- 

 coverts ; inner web.-s of flighf-quiUs blacki.sli with pale edges; 



