TANGAKA. 511 



River (McConnell collection); Mount Roraima, Mernme Moun- 

 tains, Kaniiikusa, Bartica ( W/iiteli/). 



Extralimital Ranae. Surinam (Linne), C^ayonne (British 

 JUJaseiini). 



Habits. According to Schonilnirgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. GGO) 

 tliis s[)ecies is more frequently met near the coast tlian inland. 

 Its favourite haunts are the outskirts of woods and plantations, 

 where it is found singly and in pairs. 



G72. Tang-ara mexicana. 

 Sulphur-bellied Tanager. 



Tanoffva mexicnna Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. Sl-j, 17GG (Cayenne) ; Brabourne 



& Chubb, 15. S. Amer.'i. p. 408, no. 4197, 1912. 

 Callospiza mexicana Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. G70, 1S4S. 

 Calliste JJaciventris Salvin, Ibis, 188o, p. 210 (Bartica drove) ; Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xi. p. 120 part, 1886 (British Guiana, Bartica 



Grove). 

 Calosj)iza mexicana mexicana Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



p. 127 (Georgetown), p. 185 (Hoorie Creek), p. 243 (Henrietta), 



1910. 

 Tant/ani mexicana mexicana Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British 



Guiana, p. 137, 1917 (Bartica). 



Adult male. Forehead, sides of face, throat, upper breast, lower 

 back, and upper tail-coverts dark wedg wood-blue ; hinder crown, 

 upper back, wings, and tail black ; lesser upper wing-coverts 

 turquoise-blue ; outer edges of some of the prinniry-quills blue, 

 inner margins white, the central portion of the blue feathers 

 black, which sometimes show through and gives a scaled ap- 

 pearance; lores and chin black; the feathers on the sides of tho 

 breast aiul flanks black faintly edged with blue ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts lemon-yellow; axillaries and under Aving- 

 coverts pale sul[)hur-yellow ; inner edges of Hight-quills l)elow 

 white, remainder of the (piills i)elow and lower aspect of tiiil 

 blackish brown. 



Total length 128 nun., exjiosed culmen 'J, wing 71, tail 4'.), 

 tarsus \^d. 



The male described was collected on the J'ona.'^ika Kiver in 

 1911. 



Adiih feniaU'. Similar to the adult male. AV'ing 70 nnn. 



Urecdiiu/seasun. Unknown in 15ritish (iuiana. 



