CHLOKOPHONIA. 489 



Family T/lNGARID^. 



When Brabourne & C-hubb published their 'List of the Birds 

 of South Aniericii' iu 1912, this family was represented by fifty- 

 three genera and three hundred and forty-five species. Fifteen 

 of the genera and thirty-nine of the species occur in British 

 Guiana. 



Genus CHLOROPHONIA Bonap. 



Chloroplionia Bonaparte, Eevue Zool. I80I, p. 137. Tvpc C. viridis 

 (Yieill.) 



Fig. 185. — Chloroplionia roraimce. 



The members of this genus are easily distinguished by their 

 bright colours of green, blue, and yellow. The bill is small and 

 pointed ; its depth at the nostrils is equal to about three-fourths the 

 length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded; the first four 

 primaries longest and equal. The tail is square at the tip and 

 rather more than half the length of the \vin<2". The tarsus is 

 about twice the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : male 

 and female similar. 



656. Chloroplionia roraimse. 



RORAIMA GkEEN TaNAGER. 



ChJoroplionin roraimce Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 141 (l\oraiin;i, 

 yoUU-()UOO ft.) ; Salviii, Ibis, 1885, p. 12U8 ; Sclater, Cat. W. IJrit. 

 Mus. xi. p. 50, pi. vi. tig. 1, 1886 ( Roraiina) ; Jjrabuunie <.t Cluibb, 

 V>. S. Ainer. i. p. 31)9, no. 10i)!>, li)12. 



Adult female. Crown of head, naj)e, sides of face, throat, and 

 fore-neck green like the upper back and outer aspect o£ the 

 wings ; inner webs of bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 flight-<juills black, narrowly edged with green on the outer webs 

 and more broadly margined with white on the inner ones ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-covcrtb dark turquoise-blue like the 



