RAMPHOCCELUS. " 519 



G77. Ramphocoelus carbo. 



Silver-beaked Tanager. 



Lanius carlo Pallas, Vroeg's Catal. Kais. Adumbrat. p. 2, 1704) 



(Surinam). 

 Rkamphopis atrococcineus Cab. in Schonib. Reis. Gruian. iii. p. 668, 



ISiS. 

 Ramphocelns jacapa Salvin, Ibis, lS8o, p. 210 (Bai'tica Grove, Rorairaa) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 174^, 1SS6 (Georg-etown) ; Lloyd 



Price, Timohri (2) v. p. 68, 1891 (nests and c^'^i) ; Quelch, torn. cit. 



p. 79 (Georgetown). 

 Ramphoccehis carho Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 417, no. 4297, 



1912. 

 Rampliocfjclus carho carho Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, 



p. 137, 1917 (Bartica). 



Adult male. Crown of head, hind-neck, and sides of face dark 

 crimson; entire back, upper tail-coverts, and upper wino-coverts 

 velvety black pervaded with crimson ; flight-quills and tail-feathers 

 black ; throat, fore-neck, and upper breast rich crimson, the feathers 

 on the chin have black hair-like ti{)s; lower breast, sides of body, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts black more or less tinoed with 

 crimson; under Nving-coverts black ; under surface of flight-quills 

 and lower aspect of tail black. "Bill black; widened base of 

 lower mandible bluish grey; feet black" (Cat, B. Brit. Mus,). 



Total length 170 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 80, tail G2, 

 tarsus 22. 



The male described was collected on the Mazaruni River in 1005, 

 Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being much less 

 rich in colour, in having the rump and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 dark crimson ; forehead, sides of face, throat, breast, sides of 

 body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dull red ; axillaries and 

 under tail-coverts rust-brown, the feathers on the chin have hair- 

 like tips. Wing 7G mm. 



The female described was collected on the Ituribisi liiver in 

 November I'JOG. 



Dreediny-seasDu. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Xest. " Builds its nest in low bushes, close to tlie ground, made 

 of snudl sticks, pieces of cane-trash, etc., and lined witii dry 

 grass, may be found hiiiden in the leaves of many luw trees " 

 {U. Lloyd Vrire). 



K<j(js. "Two in nunib(M-:ind are of a ]»iukis!i white, spotted, and 

 blotclied with j)urple "' (//. Llojd Price). 



