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and stout, its width at the l)ase is more than half tlie length of 

 the exposed cuhiien. The wing- is rounded, the second, third, 

 fourth, and fifth primaries ionoest and suhequal — the first is about 

 equal in length to the seventh. The tail is rounded at the tip 

 and about seven-eighths the length of the wing, and the tarsus is 

 nearly twice the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : 

 male and female difi'erent. 



690. Schistochlamys atra. 

 Black-faced Grey Tanager. 



Tanagra ofra Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 89S, 1789 (Gujanae). 

 tittUalor (iter Cab. in Sclionib. Keis. Guian. iii. ]). 077, 18-48. 

 OrckesficHs afer Salviu, Ibis, 1885, p. 213 (Merume Mts., lloraiina, 



3oOO to 5000 ft.). 

 Schistochlnmi/s ntra Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 301, 1886 



(Roraima, Merume Mts.) ; Brabourne tt Chubb, B. S. Aiiier. i. 



p. 431, no. 4437, 1912. 



Adi'lt male. Fore part of head, sides of face, chin, and throat 

 soot-bhick ; nape, hind-neck, entire back, upper tail-coverts, and 

 wings lead-grey ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish with white 

 margins ; outer edges of flight-quills like the back ; tail black, 

 some of the feathers fringed with lead-grey and edged with white 

 at the tips ; sides of neck, breast, sides of body, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts also lead-grey but paler than the back; axil- 

 laries, under wing-coverts, and. inner edges of quills below greyish 

 white ; remainder of quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of 

 tail similar with pale .shafts to the feathers and whitish edges at 

 the tips. 



Total length 173 mm., exposed culmeu 15, wing 84, tail 75, 

 tarsus 21. 



Th(! niaie described was collected on the Bonasika River in 1911. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the absence of the 

 black on the top of the head, siiles of face, and throat, the g(Mi(;ral 

 colour both on the upper and under surface yellowish green, being 

 paler on the latter, ^\'ing 78 mm. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary Uiver in 

 September VMC). 



The young male in its first plumage is similar to the female, 

 as is shown by a si)ccimen collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 1901), in which 1 lie black plumage of the male is a()proaching 

 on the crown of ihc («ead, >idc> of face, and throat. 



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