TACHYPHONUS. 535 



E.vfrah'mifal Ixaiuie. Surinam (Penanl), TriniJaJ, Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia. 

 Ilahits. UurecorJed in British Guiana. 



687. Tacliyplionus surinamus. 



FULYO US-CRESTED TaNAGER. 



Tiirdus surinamus Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 297, 176G (Surinam). 



Tacliyplionus oclu'Ojjygos Cab. in Scbomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 6G8, 1S4S. 



Tacliyplionus surinamus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Bartica Grove, 

 Merume Mts., Camacusa, Atapurau River, Koraima, 3-jOO to 

 4000 ft.)'; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 211, 1886 (Bartica 

 Grove, Merume Mts., Atapurrow River) ; Brabourne & CKubb, B. 

 S. Amer. i. p. -121, no. 4339, 1912. 



Tacliyplionus surinamus surinamus Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in 

 British Guiana, p. 137, 1917 (Bartica). 



Adult male. General colour of the plumage, both on the upper 

 and under surface, glossy black, including the fore-part of the 

 head, sides of face, back, wings, and tail with steel-blue reflections 

 on the upper back; middle of crowm orange-colour fading to 

 straw-yellow on the nape; rump pale fawn-colour; lesser upper 

 wino-coverts, axillaries, nnder wing-coverts, and inner margins 

 of flight-quills, on the basal portion, pure white ; some of the 

 feathers on the lower flanks tipped with deep chestnut. 



Total length 15G mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 85, tail 71, 

 tarsus 18. 



The specimen described above was collected on the Ituribisi 

 Kiver in November 1008. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface yellowish 

 green, including the sides of the face, entire back, wings, and 

 tail ; crown of head and nape slate-grey ; inner webs of flight- 

 quills dark brown; under surface, including the throat, breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts, fawn-colour; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white ; under surface oE flight-quills and 

 lower aspect of t;iil dark brown. AVing 80 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Anarica Tliver. 



Tinmaliire male. Tn its first ])luniage is si mi hi r to the adult 

 female, tiie first approach of the male dres^:, in this specimen, 

 being on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 



Breedinfi-season. Unknown in British Guiaia. 



Nt'st. Unrecorded in P)ritish Guiana. 



Kyys. Unilescril)od fioni l>ritish (Juiana. 



