494 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



G59. Tanagra xanthog-aster. 

 Orange-bellied Euphonia. 



Euphonia xnnthoqaster Siindev. Vet.-Ak. Hundl, 1833, -p. 310, pi. 10. 



tig. 1 (Brazil). » 

 Euphonia xinifhnqasfra Salvin, Ibis, 1SS5, p. 20S (Merume Mts., 



Camacusa, Atapurau ]{iver) ; Sckter, Cat. Ji. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 07, 



18SG (Uiver Atapurow, Merume Mts , Camacusa). 

 Tanagra xanthnqaster Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 400, 



no. 4111, 1912. 



Adult male. (Jrown o£ head, breast, sides of body, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts orange-vellow ; nape and hind-neck glo.s.sj 

 violet-pnrple ; back, wings, and tail gb)ssy steel-blue ; inner 

 webs of flight-quills blackish brown all, except the three outer 

 primaries, white at the base, the white increasing in extent on the 

 inner secondaries, where it occupies quite half the inner web ; a 

 large ovate white sj)ot on the inner web of the outermost tail- 

 feathers ; cheeks and throat dull black; under wing-coverts and 

 inner edges of quills below white, remainder of the quill-lining 

 <lark brown ; lower asj)ect of tail blackish with a white patch on 

 the inner web of the outermost feather on each side. 



Total length lOi) mm., exposed culmen 6, wing GO, tail 32, 

 tarsus 16. * 



The exact locality in British Guiana of the male and female 

 described is not known. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface dark yel- 

 lowish green with a tinge of bluish grey on the nape ; inner webs 

 of flight-quills blac kish brown paler on the inner margins ; tail- 

 feathers blackish fringed with the same colour as the back ; 

 forehead, feathers surrounding the eye, lores, and chin ochreous- 

 yellow ; sides of body greenish yellow ; fore-neck and middle of 

 breast vinous grey ; middle of abdomen dark fawn-colour ; under 

 tail-coverts old-gold yellow; axillaries pale canary -3'ellow ; under 

 wing-coverts white; under surface of flight-quills Lair-brown; 

 lower aspect of tail similar. Wing 59 mm. 



Jh'ecdlnri-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



E'jgs. Undoscribcd from British Guiana. 



l^aiKje in Brili^h Guiana. j\Iciume Mountains. Kamakusa, 

 Kamarang Biver (Whiteh/). 



