506 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



edge of hastarJ-wing tinoed witb blue ; inner webs of the greater 

 series and priinary-coverts black ; flight-quills black margined 

 with green on the outer webs and edged with whitish on the inner 

 ones; outer tail-feathers black on their inner portions ; fore part 

 of head more or less tinged with l)lue ; base of forthead and a 

 supraloral streak whitish ; loral spot black ; sides of face black 

 with pale bluish green tips to the feathers ; throat and breast 

 bluish grey with black centres to the feathers and a golden-yellow 

 tinge on the sides of the breast ; sides of body grass-green ; paler 

 and more yellowish green on the under tail-coverts ; middle of 

 al)domen and thighs inclining to whitish ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white with a slight tinge of yellow, inner margins of 

 quills below similar; under surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; 

 lower aspect of tail bluish. 



Total length 129 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 63, tail 41, 

 tarsus 18. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 63 mm. 



The male and female described were collected on the Ireng. 

 River by Mr. J. J. Quelch in 1902. 



Breedin<i-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J'^<VJ^- Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Ramje in Br'uish Guiana. Ituribisi Iiiver, Supenaam Iviver, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Ireng Uiver, Manarica Uiver, Arawai 

 lliver, Tiger Greek Essequobo River, Great Falls Demerara River, 

 Arwye Creek (^McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Merume 

 Mountains, Bartica ( Whitely). 



Ji.itralimital Rtuige. Surinam (Linne), Cayenne {British 

 Museunt), North Brazil. 



(:>K)^, Tang-ara xanthogastra. 

 Yellow-bellied Tanager. 



Calliste xanfliogastra Sclater, Contr. Orn. ISol, pp. 23, 5.") (Rio Xegvo, 

 K Brazil) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1SS5, p. 209 (Korainia, (5000 ft., Kukenam, 

 5000 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. E. Brit. Mus. xi. p. lOU, 188G (lioraima, 

 Kukenam). 



Tangara ccnntlioqastra Brabourue & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 405, 

 no. 4169, ]912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface green with 

 black centres to the feathers, including the top of the head, hind- 



