524 BIRDS OF BRITtSH GUIANA. 



quills below, remainder of the under surface of the qnill-linint^ 

 dark hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail dark yellow. AVing 93 mm. 



Immature male. Similar to adult female in its first plumage, 

 but the present individual, being in the process of transition, has 

 crimson-red feathers approaching on the top of the head, sides of 

 the face, hind-neck, and back, and brighter red on the throat, 

 ])reast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts. 



The specimens described above were collected at Mount 

 Roraima by Mr. McConnell during his expedition in October 

 1.S98. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Egcis. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima (^McConnell 

 coiledion) ; Mount Roraima (Mhitely). 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 0G8) that he 

 always found this species solitary and not very common. He 

 a[tpears to have collected but one specimen, which he shot in the 

 Pacaraima Mountains. The '^Arekunas" call it Anouta-jxipina. 



680. Piranga saira macconnelli. 



McConnell's Red Tanager. 



(Plate IX.) 



Tanagra saira Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 35, pi. 48. fig. 1, 182o (South-East 



Brazil). 

 Piranga saira Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 418, no. 4310, part, 



1912. 

 Piranga saira macconnelli Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. 9) 



viii. p. 44G, Oct. 1921. 



Adult male. General colour of the up])er surface orange-red, 

 somewhat l)rightGr on the top of the head and upper tail-co\erts, 

 darker on the back, wings, and tail; inner webs of. upper wing- 

 coverts and bastard-wing dark brown, darker and inclining to 

 black on the flight-quills, which have the inner margins rose- 

 pink ; inner webs of tail-feathers reddish brown ; entire under 

 surface brio-ht scarlet-red includino; the axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts; under surface of flight-quills hair-brown with rose- 

 pink inner edges; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper surface. 



Total length 182 mm., exposed culmen 18. wing 97, tail 75, 

 tarsus 23. 



