514 BIRDS UF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Eggs. UndescribeJ. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima [McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitehj). 

 Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus THRAUPIS Boie. 

 Thranpis Boie, Isis, 182G, p, 974. T3'pe T. arcJiirj^iscajnis (Desm.). 



Fig. 189. — Thru up is episcojms. 



The species on Avliich tliis gonus was founded are birds of 

 medium size and somewhat bright coloration. The bill is conical, 

 the width and depth at the base are about equal, and the tip of the 

 upper mandible is slightly hooked and the nostrils are ex})Osed. 

 The "wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries are 

 longest and equal^ and the first is rather shorter than the fifth 

 but much longer than the sixth. The tail is square at the tip and 

 about two-thirds the length of the wing. The tarsus exceeds the 

 length of the exposed culmen by nearly one-half. Coloration : 

 male and female similar. 



Keg to the Species. 



A, G cncral colour pale blue T. ep/scojjus, p. 511. 



li. General colour dark olive T. melanopiera, p. 51G. 



675. Thraupis episcopus. 



Bishop Tanager. 



Tanagra episcopus Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 31G, 17G6 (" Brasilia') ; Cab. 

 in Schunib. Beis. Guian. iii. p. 670, 1848; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 210 (Bartioa Grove, Merume Mts., Camacusa, Koiaima, 

 3000-3500 ft.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 154, 1886 

 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Boraima) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) iv. 

 pp. I2I, 189, 1890 (Great Falls Demerara River); id. op. cit. v. 

 p. 80, 1891 (Georgetown) ; Lloyd Price, torn. cit. p. 63 (nests and 



Tanagi-a seriopfcra Cab. in Schomb. Beis. Guian. iii. p. G70, 1848. 



