TAXAGRA. 499 



Tanaqra violacea Brabournc & Clmbb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 401, no. 4122, 

 i912; EeobL-, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. lc!G, 11)10 

 (Biirtica). 



Tanaqra violacea roJwayi Penard. Proc. Xcw Engl. Zool. CI. vii. p. 30, 

 i)ec. 1919. 



"Canary/' "Bastard-Canary'^ (Quelch). 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, nape, and nppcr Lack 

 glossy purple, becoming glossy steel-blue on the lower back, 

 sca[)ulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; flight-quills black 

 fringed with steel-blue on the outer webs and white on the inner 

 ones whicli commences on the fiflli primar}-, increasing in extent 

 towards the inner secondaries, where it covers the whole of the 

 inner web for more than half the length of the feather; inner 

 webs of tail-feathers black with an oblique patch of white on the 

 inner web near the tij) of the outer feather ; fore part of head, 

 throat, and breast orange-yellow, becoming paler on the abdomen, 

 sides of body, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries sulphur-yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and base of inner quills below white ; marginal 

 imder wing-coverts, greater series, and flight-qiiills below blackish; 

 lower aspect of tail l)lack with a patch of white on the outermost 

 feather on each side. 



Total length 1)6 mm., exposed culmen S, wing 57, tail 29, 

 tarsus 14. 



The male described was collected on the Bonasika Ixiver in 

 1912. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface yellowish 

 bronze-green, including the crown of tlie head, entire back, wings, 

 iind tail ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, ant! flight-quills black, 

 fringed with bronze-green on the outer webs, jtaler and inclining 

 to white on the margins of the inner webs ; lateral tail-feathers 

 black mariiined with bronz('-<ireen on the outer webs, there is a 

 slight trace of a white spot on the inner web of the outernioret 

 feather near the tip; lores and eye-ring com))Osed of very short 

 wliitish feathers ; sides of face similar to the back ; throat and re- 

 mainder of the under surlaco greenish yellow, somewhat paler on 

 the middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts; axillaries, umler 

 tail-coverts, and inner webs of (piills at tbe base below white; 

 remainder of (piill-lining liair-brow n ; lower as[)ect of tail similar 

 with a sliiiht trace of white on the outei- feather. AN'ine; oO mm. 



The female described was coikcted on the lluribisi J{iver in 

 October 190^. 



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