512 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in BrLtisli Guiana. 



l^^igs. Undesciibed from British Griiiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituril)isi liiver, Supenaam River, 

 Takntu, Mazaruni Rivor, Bonasika River, Al)ar3' River, Tioer 

 Creek Essequebo River {McConnell collection); Bartica ( R'Ai^^'/y) ; 

 Georgetown, Hoorie Creek, Bartica (Beebe). 



Extraliniital Range. Surinam (Penaid), Cayenne [British 

 21aseum) . 



Habits. Scliomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. G70) that this 

 species is common and generally distributed throughout tiie 

 colony. It is especially fond of the Cecropia trees. The 

 " Warraus " call it Mohehera. 



G73. Tangara nigrocincta. 



Lilac-throated Tanager. 



Jf/hiia nigrocincta Bonap. P. Z. S. 1887 [1838], p. 121 (West Brazil). 



Calliste nigricincta Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 23-5, 18.50. 



Calliste nigricincta Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 210 (lioraima) ; Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 126, 1880 (Boraima). 

 Tanr/ara nigricincta Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Aiuer. i. ji. 409, no. 4206, 

 '1912. 



Adult female. Crown of head, nape, and sides of face blue ; 

 tliroat purplish blue ; back black ; upper wing-coverts very pale 

 iridescent blue becoming darker blue on the margins of the 

 greater series, flight-quills, and upper tail-coverts, the remaining 

 })ortion of the flight-quiJls black ; tail also black slightly fringed 

 with blue on the outer nuirgins of the feathers ; lores and base of 

 forehead black ; abdomen dark blue ; breast, sides of body, under 

 tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts black with pale 

 edgings to the under tail-coverts ; under surface of quills and lower 

 asjjcct of tail blackish brown. 



Total length 107 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing C9, tail 44, 

 tarsus 16. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was col- 

 lected on the Bouasika River by Mr. McConnell during his return 

 journey from Mount Roraima in Decemljcr 1898. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female. AViug 05 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



