TANGARA. 513 



Range in British Gu'ana. Bonasika River {}JcConneIl 

 colledi'on) ; Mount Roraima ( Whiteli/). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (^Penard), Bolivia, South-east 

 and Central Peru. 



IJahits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



674. Tangara whitelyi. 



Whitely's Tanageb. 



CaJliste whitelyi SaMn & Godman, Ibis, 1SS4, ji. 44o, pi. xiii. (Eoraima); 



Salvin, Ibis, 1S85, j). 210 ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 13(3, 



1S8G (Eoraima). 

 Tangara whitelyi Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i, p. 410, no. 4226, 



1912. 



Adult male. Crown o£ head, sides of face, throat, scapulars, 

 ^vings, and tail black ; inner edges of flight-ciuills whitish ; entire 

 back, including the upper tail-coverts, breast, sides of body, 

 al)donien. and under tail-coverts ijidescent golden straw-colour 

 with dark bases to the feathers: axillaries and under wino-coverts 

 white ; inner margins of quills below silvery-white ; under surface 

 of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail blackish brown with a 

 tinge of blue on the latter. 



Total length 129 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 71, tail 47, 

 tarsus 19. 



Adult female . Crown of head, nape, and sides of face dark lead- 

 grey with dark centres to the feathers ; entire back and upj)er 

 tail-coverts yellowish iridescent green ; upper win^-coverts dark 

 green with the inner portion of the feathers black like tiie inner- 

 most secondary-quills ; flight-quills black with blue on the outer 

 edges and white on the inner nuirgins ; tail-feathers black with 

 dark greenish blue on the outer nuirgins ; throat and fore-neck 

 grey with whitish margins to tin* feathers ; abdomen, ^ndes of 

 body, and under tail-coverts yellowish green ; under wing-coverts 

 white. Wing 71 mm. 



The male and female described were collected at Mount Roraima 

 by Mr. McC'onnell during his expedition, Octoljcr 1898. 



The young male in its first plumage is similar to tlial of tlie 

 adult female. 



JJreeding-season. Unknown. 



Sest. Unrecorded. 

 VOL. II. 2l 



