coccopsis. 467 



cliieflj by its thin bill, sbort feathers on the throat, am] rounded 

 tail. The bill is projiortionately lonn- and somewhat de[»res.scd at 

 the base, where the width exceeds its de[)th by about one-thiid. 

 The wino- is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries 

 longest and equal, tlie first about equal in length to the fifth. 

 The tail is rounded at the tip and nearly six-sevenths the length 

 of the wing; the middle tail-feathers exceed the outermost by 

 about 10 mm. The tarsus exceeds the length of the exposed 

 culineu by about one-third. Coloration: male and female similar. 



644. Coccopsis gularis. 

 Black-tiiuoated Cardinal. 



Tamujra c/whwis Linn. Sy-st. Nat. i. p. 31G, 17GG (Guiana). 



Calyphtrop'iorus (jalaris Cab. in Schomb. l\ji.s. (luian. iii. p. G7'S. 184(S. 



Coccopsis (J 111 a ris Cab. Mas. Hein. i. p. 145, LSol. 



Passerina gularis Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana, 

 p. 22-5, lS7(i. 



Varoarid niqrifjetiis (nee Lafr.) Salvin, Ibis, 1N.S5, p. 215 (Camacusa). 



Faroaria (jnlaris SIvirpo, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xii. p. 818, pi. xvi. fig. 4, 

 188S (Caniacusa) ; Quclch, Tinielu-i (2) iv. p. 334, 1890 (Upper 

 Berbice liiver) ; Bral)()urne i^" Cliulib, H. S. Anier. i. p. 385, no. 3952, 

 1912; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, i». 13(5, 19 17 

 (Bartiea). 



"Fall-bird'^ (Broicn). 



Adult male. Entire back, wings, and tail glossy bliic-black, the 

 bases to the feathers on the back jialo grey ; inner edges of 

 fiight-quills white; crown of head, sides of face, and chin red; 

 lori'S and feathers round the eye black ; lower throat glos-y black 

 with dark red bases to the feathers; breast, abdomen, sides of 

 body, and under tail-coverts white, as are also the axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below; greater under 

 wing-cdverts black, which forms a patch near the outside edge of 

 the wing; under surface of flight-(|uills and lower aspect of (ail 

 black. 



Total length lOo mm., exposed cnlmen 13, wing 8(>, tail 74, 

 tarsus 22. 



The male describctl was collected by Mr. McCoiuiell on the 

 Bonasika River in December. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 7<S mm. 



A young bird from the Up[)er Takutu Mountains dill'ers from 

 tho adult in having the entire upper surface dusky-brown, crown 



