TANAGRA. 407 



The female described is in tlie British Museum, Gould collection, 

 and is said to have come from Demerara. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



l^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Guiana. Supenaam River [McConnell col- 

 lection); Demerara [JJritish Museum). 



Extralimital liange. (-ayenne (Linne), Surinam (Penard)^ 

 North Brazil. 



Habits. The following note has been coin'ed from Beebe (Our 

 Search for a Wilderness, p. 319j : — "'Tiny male Purple-throated 

 Eu[)honias clad in purple jackets, yellow caps, and waistcoats. 

 They were ridiculously tame, and sang their simple chattering 

 song in our faces." 



662. Tanagra minuta. 

 White-vented Eltiionia. 



jEuphonia ininufn Cab. in Sclionib. Heis. Guian. iii. p. G71, ISIS ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1SS5, p. 2US (Bartica Grove, Caniacusa) ; Sclater, Cat. B. 

 iirit. Mus. xi. p. 71, ISSG (Camacusa, Bartica Grove). 



Tancufra olivacea Bra bourne & Chubb, i^. S. Auier. i. p. 401, no. -1119, 101 2. 



Tanaifra olivucan olicacea IJeebe, Troincal Wild Life in British Guiana, 

 p. i:Jtj, 1917 (BarticaJ. 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape glossy steel-blue ; throat, 

 sides of face, back, -wings, and tail glossy steel-blue : fliglit-quills 

 black on the inner webs fringed with white on the ba.^al portion 

 on all, excejtt the first or outermost, the wliito increasing in 

 extent towards the inner secondaries where it covers tlie gi'eater 

 j)art of tlie inner wel) ; lateral tail-feathers black on the inner 

 webs and marked with white on the apical [tortion of the thi'ee 

 outer ones, which decreases in extent towards the miildle feathers; 

 fore-ni!ck, breast, abdomen, and siiles of body orange-yellow; 

 axillaries lemon-yellow; venl, thighs, under tail-coverls, under 

 wing-ci>verts, ami ba.-?e of quills below white; remainder of flight- 

 (juilis below and lower aspect of tail blackish, the latter e.\tcnsively 

 marked with white on the outer feathiirs. 



Total length 156 nun., exposed culmen 8, wing .')2, tail 26, 

 tarsus 12. 



The male described was collected by IMr, ]Vrc(/Onnoll on ibe 

 f'otinga River during his expedition to 3Iount Ivoruima in Oeto- 

 ber IS'JS. 



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