498 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Adult female. General colour of tlie upper surface dnrk olive- 

 green with blackish centres to the feathers on the head and najie ; 

 median and greater upj)er -vving-coA'erts black on the inner Avebs ; 

 bustard-wing blackish brown ; ])riniarT-coverts uniform black ; 

 flight-quills black edged with olive-green on the outer webs and 

 white on the inner ones; tail-feathers black fringed with olive- 

 green on the outer webs and a slight indication of white on the 

 inner webs at the tips of the two outer feathers ; sides of face 

 similar to the back ; forehead slightly more yellow than the back ; 

 chin slightly tinged with yellow ; throat whitish grey, similar to 

 the middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts, the latter have 

 dark shaft-lines ; breast and sides of the bod}' greenish yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and base of quills white, remainder of the 

 flight-quills beloAv dark brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish, with 

 an indication of Avhite on the inner webs at the tips of the two 

 outer feathers. Wing 47 mm. 



The description of the female is taken from a specimen collected 

 by Mr. McOonnell on the Bonasika Kiver in December 1898. 



The young male in its first plumage is similar to the adult 

 female, and there are two examples from the Bonasika Biver 

 which show the youno- niernino- into the adult male i)luma<T;e. 



Jlreedintj-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



I\est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



E<jgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in Britisli Guiana. Cotinga Biver, Ituribisi Biver, 

 Bonasika Biver, Great Falls Demerara Biver [McConnell col- 

 lection) ; Bartica, Kamakusa {Whitehj). 



J'J.vtralimifal Range. Surinam (Penard), Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru. 



Jjabits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



6G3. Tanagra violacea. 



Violaceous Euphonia. 



Fi'ingiUa violacea Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 182, 11 oH (Sixrinam). 



Hujyhona violacea Cab. in Schomb. Jieis. Guian. iii. p. G70, 1S48. 



J£itphonia violacea Salvin, Ibis, 18S5, p. 208 (Bartica Grove, JvoraiiTia, 

 3000-3700 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 74, ISSO ( Hoi-aima, 

 Bartica Grove) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 240, 1910 

 (l*omeroon lliver). 



