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BIRDS Ul" IIRITISII GUIANA. 



Genus TANAGRELLA Swain,^. 



TunoqrfUa Swainson, Anim. ]\I(.'iiag. part iii. p. 313, text-fig. 60, 1837. 

 Tvpe T. cijiuwmelcena (AVied.). 



Fii(. 1S7. — TanncjrclJa vrlia. 



This opiiiis is (listiii;:nish<"<l cliiofly Ijv its soinowliMt lniin; jiikI 

 slemlcr l)ill,tlio exposed culinen Ijeing about two-tliii'ds tlie Icnoih 

 of llie tarsus. The \vin<; is rotunled, tlie second and thii'd 

 priniaries loncrest, tlie first and fouilh l)ein<); aljout equal. The 

 tail is square at the tip and ahout two-thirds the length of the 

 wing. The tarsus is e'jual in length to the middle toe and cdaw. 

 (Coloration : male and female similar. 



GG5. Tanagrella velia. 



BLUf>BELLIED TaNAGEH. 



'AlnlaciUa 7'elin Linn. Syst. Xat. i. ]). 336, 17G6 (Surinam). 

 Jfi/ljuthli/pis iriiUna Cal). in Sclionib. Keis. (Juian. iii. p. 6(57, 1S4S!. 

 Tuiiaf/rt'lla velia Salvin, Ibis, ISSo, j). 20i> (Koraiina, 'A^A'A) ft., Mt ruine 



Mts., Camaciisa, liartica Grove) ; Sclater. Cat. Ji. lirit. Mus. xi. 



p. S7. 1886 (Bai-tica Grove, Merume Mts., Camacu.sa, Ivorainia) ; 



lii-abourne k Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 402, no. 41 38, 1912 ; Beebe, 



Tropical AVild Life in British Guiana, p. 137, 1917 (Barticaj. 



Adult male. C'l-own of head, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail 

 deep back, with blue margins to the feathers of the uj>per wing- 

 coverts, Hight-quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers ; lower 

 back and rump glossy straw-colour, with a tinge of green and 

 blackish bases to the feathers ; inner webs of flight-quills margined 

 with whitish; forehead, sides of face, short feathers round the 

 eye, and throat dark turquoise-blue; lores, the feathers covering 

 the nostrils, and a band across the fore-neck, which extends on to 

 the hinder-face, black; breast, sides of the body, and up])er 

 abdomen dark purplish blue, paler along the flanks ; lower 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts chestnut ; axillarics, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below white; greater 



