PIEANGA. 523 



Egos. Undescribed from British Gniana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima {Whitehj^. 



K.dralimital Range. Surinam {Penard), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. Northward through Central 

 America to the United States. 



Hahits. Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 2()3), writing on the 

 nu'oratory birds in British Guiana, remarks : — *'It is noteworthy 

 that in the case oE the Red-birds {Piiranga a^stiva) thev seem to 

 occur only on tlie high lands of the interior, having never been 

 taken on the coast lands.'' 



670. Pirang-a hsemalea. 

 Roraima Red Tanager. 



Phoenicostoma azarce (nee d'Orb.) CaK in Schomb. Reis. Gnian. ill. 



p. 608. 1848. 

 Pyranga hcemalfa Salvia & Godman, Ibis, 1883, p. 20o ; Salvin. Ibis,. 



188.'), p. 211 (Koraiiua, 3oUU ft.); Selater, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xi, 



p. 18o, 1880 (Koraiuia). 



Nearly adult male. General colour of the upper surface crimson- 

 red, including the crown of tlie head, sides of the face, entire- 

 back, wings, and tail ; inner webs of the upper wing-coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackisb, much 

 paler and inclining to rose-pink on the inner nuirgins of 

 the last; some of the innermost secondaries on one of the- 

 wings show traces of immaturity, as do also one of the tail- 

 feathers ; under surface also red but paler than on the u{)per 

 parts, with a sign of immaturity on one side of the breast ; under 

 wing-coverts, inner edges of quills below, and lower aspect of tail 

 rose-[)iuk, remainder of the umler surface of tlie flight-quills dark 

 brovvn. 



Total length 173 nnn.^ exjjosed culmen 18, wing 9(iy. tail 72,. 

 tarsus 20. 



Adult female. Entirely different to the adult male, being 

 greenish yellow on tlie upper surface and sides of the face ; inner 

 webs of the upper wing-coverts and Higlit-(piilU blackisb, paler 

 on the inner margins of the last; tail rather darker than tlic 

 back; under surl'ace old-gold yellow, paler on tlie under Uiil- 

 cov(.'rt-«, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner edges of tliglit- 



