VOLATINIA. 443 



Genns VOLATINIA Reichenb. 



Volaf?'n>n Tieiclienb. Syst. Av. pi. Ixxix. fig. IG, ISoO. Type V. jacarini 

 (Linn.). 



Fig. 16G. — Volatinia splendens. 



This genus is easily recognized by the glossy steel-blue plumage 

 of the male and the sombre dress of the female. The bill is 

 pointed, its depth and width at the base being about equal. The 

 wing is rounded, the second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 longest and equal and the first about equal to the seventh. The 

 tail is rounded at the tip, and nearly equal to the wing in length. 

 The tarsus is al)out equal in length to the middle toe and claw. 

 Coloration : male and female different. 



630. Volatinia splendens. 

 Glossy Grassquit. 



Frinrjilla splendens Yieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 73, 1817 



(Cayenne). 

 Volatinia splendens Salvin, Ibis, iSS.j, p. 215 (Bartica Grove) ; 



Brabuurne & Chubb, B. S. Aiuer. i. p. 369, no. 3790, 1912. 

 Volatinia jacarina (nee Linn.) Salvin, Ibis, 18S5, p. 215 (Koraiuia) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 152 (pai-t), 18S8 (Roraima and 



Canmang River). 

 Volatinia jacarina splendens Beebe, Tropieal Wild Life in British 



(iiiiuna, p. 130, 1917 (iJartica). 



Adult male. General colour both above and below glossy blue- 

 black ; axillaries white and some of tlu; inner under wing-coverts 

 partially wliite ; fiighl-(|uills and lail-ieathcrs black more or less 

 glossed with blue-black. 



Total length 111) mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 54, tail 40, 

 tarsus 15. 



The adult male from which the doscriptiou is taken was col- 

 lected on the Abary Uivor in July I'JOG. 



