DIGLOSSA. ■ 475 



648. Digiossa major. 



Greater Guit-guit. 



(l^late YIII. fig. 3.) 



Digiossa major Cab. in Scliomb. Iveis. Giiian. iii. p. 07G, 18-48 (Mount 

 Koi-aima); Gray, Hancll. B. i. p. 118, J8G9; Sclater & Salviii, 

 Nomenol. Av, Neotrop. p. 15, 1873; Sclater, Ibis, 1875, p. 214; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 206 (Eoraima, 5000-0000 ft.); Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 7, 1880 (Korainia) ; Brabourne & Cbubb, 

 B. S. Ainer. i. p. 303, no. 4035, 1912. 



Adult female. General colour both above and below dark blue 

 with paler blue shaft-streaks to the feathers, many of the feathers 

 on the liind-neck have the shafts extended into black hair-like 

 tips ; bastard-wing, greater upper wing-coverts, primary-coverts, 

 and Hight-quills black, paler on the edges of the inuer webs and 

 blue along the margins of the outer ones of the last ; tail-feathers 

 black fritigvd with l)luo on the outer margins ; base of foreliead, 

 lores, feathers below the eye, ear-coverts, and chin black ; a 

 slightly imiicated grey moustachial streak; under surface paler 

 than above and inclining to grey on the throat ; under tail- 

 coverts, some of the feathers on the outer margin of the Aving 

 below, and two or three feathers on the middle of the breast 

 chestnut; axillaries and under wing-coverts silverj^-grey, under 

 surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail blackish. " Bill 

 plumbeons ; feet horn-colour '^ (Cat. B. Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 169 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 84, tail 77, 

 tarsus 25. 



The specimen descril)ed was collected at Mount Ivoraima by 

 Mr. Mci.'onnell in October 1898. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female and tliffering oidy in 

 the absence of the siuall chestnut spot on the breast. A\'ing 

 81 mm. 



Breedina-seasnn. Uid'cnown. 



Scst. UniX'corded. 



J'lyijs. U n descr i I )ed . 



Range coti/hied lo />ril'is!t fluiaua. ]\Iount Koraima {McC(»tnell 

 colled'ton) : I\I(junt lioraima {lyidtely). 



Halnts. Schonduirgk states (Heis. (Juian. iii. p. 67G) that he 

 first met with this bird on tin? Koraima Mountains at an altituilu 

 of (iOOO ft'«;t, whtTo it wandcrcij ihrough 1 he bii>h(!S grt)wing on 



