CYANERPES. 481 



upper back, sides of neck, wings, tail, and under tail-coverts ; 

 lesser upper wing-coverts, scapulars, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts purplish blue, like the sides of the crown, sides o£ 

 face, throat, and entire under surface ; inner webs of flight-quills 

 for the most part lemon-yellow ; under wing-coverts and inner 

 edges of quills below bright lemon-yellow ; bend of wing below 

 velvety black ; apical portion of quills on the under surface and 

 lower aspect of tail blackish. 



Total length 125 mm., exposed culmen 16, wing 61, tail 37, 

 tarsus 13. 



The male described above was collected on the Mazaruni IRiver, 

 1905. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface dark green, 

 including the crown of the head, back, wings, and tail ; inner webs 

 of the bastard-wing, greater upper wing-coverts, and primary- 

 coverts black ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish, broadly edged 

 with yellow on the basal portion ; tail also blackish fringed with 

 green on the outer webs of the feathers, and slightly paler on the 

 edges at the tips ; a slightly indicated supraloral streak which 

 extends over the eye where it is more pronounced; lores blackish ; 

 sides of face green with pale shaft-streaks to the feathers ; sides 

 of breast and sides of body green ; throat, middle of breast, middle 

 of abdomen, and under tail-coverts bufFy-white tinged with green ; 

 axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below 

 3'ellow, outer margin of wing below brown, with pale tips to the 

 feathers ; under surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail 

 pale brown, with paler edges to the tips of the tail-feathers. AVing 

 Gl mm. 



The female described was collected at Bartica. 

 A young male from tlie Supenaam Hivcr is similar to the adult 

 female, differing only in having the wings and tail black, without 

 any green margins to the feathers and a very slight appearance of 

 blue on the lower back. A second one from the same locality is 

 rather more advanced, showing more blue on the lower back and 

 the appearance of black on the upper back, while a third one from 

 the same place has almost completely gained the adult male 

 plumage leaving only a few traces of the green fcnuile dress. 

 Breedimj-season. Unrecorded in Britisii (liiiana. 

 Nest. "Composed of fine, l)ut very strong thread-like rootlets, 

 all of a uniform dark brown ur black colour " {Jiecbt). 

 VOL, II. 2 I 



