TANGARA. 509 



Callisfe cayana Salvin, Ibis, 18So, p. 209 (Merume Mts., Roraima, 



3500-4000 ft.); Sclater, Cut. E. Brit. Mas. xi. p. Ill, 1886 



(Roraima, Merume ]\[ts.). 

 Cdloapizf! ctti/tinu Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 127, 1910 



(Georgetown). 

 Tangnra caijana Brabourne &. Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 406, no. 4180, 



1912. 



Adult male. Crown ot head cop[)er-l:)ronze colour becoming rich 

 gohlen straw-colonr on tlie hind-neck, sides of neck, back, and short 

 upper tail-coverts, the long ones blue like the middle tail-feathers ; 

 lesser upper wing-coverts and scapulars d.irk dull blue, the greater 

 series, bastard-wing, and i)rimary-coverts black margined with 

 blue on the outer webs; tlight-quills also black margined with 

 blue on the outer wel)S anil white on the inner ones; tail-feathers 

 black edged with Idue on the outer webs ; lores and sides of face 

 black ; throat and f'ore-ncck dull blue ; remaider of the under 

 surface dark fawn-colour n)ore or less suffusi d with blue; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts buffy-\\hite ; under surface of 

 flight-quills dark hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail pearl-blue. 



Total length 133 mm.^ exposed culmeu 10, wing 77, tail 55, 

 tarsus 19. 



The male d(^scribed was collected by Mr. jMcC^onnell at Mount 

 Koraima during his expedition in (3ctol)er 1898. 



Adult fe null f. Similar to tlic adult male, but the blue on the 

 throat much less bright and smaller in size. ^Ving 71 nun. 



The female described was collected on the Ireng lliver by- 

 Mr. J. J. Quelch in 1902. 



An imnuiture example of this species from the U})per Takutu 

 Mountains differs from the adult in having the chin and throat 

 greyish white. 



JireediiKj-si'ason. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



E<j<j--<. Undescril)ed from British Guiana. 



liuiKje in Jiritisk Guiana. Blount Koraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Ituribisi River, Abary Kivor, Ireng Kivcr (Mc( 'oiuwll 

 cullectioii) ; Mount Rorainui, Merume Mountains (^Whitehi). 



Kxtralimilal Rmuje. Suriruim (I'eiuird), North Brazil, Vone- 

 zuela, Colombia, East Peru. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (I{eis. Guian. iii. p. (170) 

 this species is distrilnitcd througliout British Guiana. It associates 



