542 BIRDS OF BRITISH (iFIANA. 



692. Hemithraupis hellmayri. 

 Merumk Tanager. 



Jlemithraiqns Tiellmayri Berlepsch, Yerh. v. Intern. Orn. Kongr. 



]?erlin, 1910, p. 10S2, 1912 (Merurae Mts.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, 



B. S. Amer. i. p. 424, no. 43G9, 1912. 

 Nemosia guira Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Merume Mts.). 

 Kemosia Jlavicollis Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 225 part, 18SG 



(Meiiime Mts.). 



Adult male. Crown of Lead, sides of face, sides of neck, hind- 

 neck, mantle, scapulars, wings, and tail blackish brown ; back, 

 upper tail-coverts, throat, and under taii-coverts bright yellow ; 

 some of the primary-quills white at the base, which forms a more 

 or less obscured wing-speculum ; breast, abdomen, and sides of 

 body greyish white becoming yellowish on the vent ; axillaries, 

 under wing-coverts, and base of quills below- white ; remainder of 

 quill-lining blackish brown ; lower nspect of tail similar but rather 

 paler and having whitish shafts to the feathers. 



Total length 118 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 71, tail 52, 

 tarsus 17. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being smoke- 

 brown on the upper surface with yellowish fringes to the wing 

 and tail-feathers and dull yellow on the under parts. Wing 63 mm. 



The specimens described were collected at the Great Falls 

 Demerara River, August 1912. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



E'jgs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. ]\Iei ume Mountains ( Wldielij). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



693. Hemithraupis roraimae. 



RoRAiMA GriRA Tanager. 



(Plate VIII. figs. 1, 2.) 



Nemosia guira Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (part) (Roraima, 3000-4000 ft.); 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 22-1 (part), 188G (Roraima). 

 Nemosia guira roraimce Hellinayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xxv. p. 88, 1910 



(Mt. Roraima). 

 Jleniithnnipis roraimcB Brabom'ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 425, 



no. 4377, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, hind-neck, mantle, upper back. 



