PROCNIAS. 317 



tail is square at the tip, and measures rather more than half the 

 length of the wing. The tarsus is scutellated in front and about 

 twice the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and 

 female different. 



552. Procnias carnobarba. 



Black-winged Bell-bird. 



Averano carnoharha Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 365, pi. 52. fig. 1, 1830 



(Trinidad) ; Hellm. Nov. Zool. xxvii. p. 330, note, 1920. 

 Procnias lumbriciferus Q-istel in Gistel & Bromme, Handb. Naturg. 



aller drei Eeiche, Stuttgart, 1850, p. 295. 

 Gasmorhynchus variegatus (nee G-mel.) Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, 



p. 123, 1876 (Cotinga Eiver to Eoraima) ; Brabom*ne & Chubb, 



B. S. Amer. i. p. 325, no. 3321, 1912. 

 Ghasmorhynclius variegatus (nee Gmel.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 306 



(Eoraima, 3500 ft.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 405, 1888. 



Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and sides of face coffee- 

 brown ; throat and fore-neck covered with string-like wattles, 

 which are black in skin ; back, scapulars, and rump silver-grey 

 like the breast, abdomen, and sides of the body ; upper and under 

 tail-coverts and tail, both above and below, ivory-white with a 

 tinge of yellow ; upper and under wing-coverts black, as are also 

 the flight-quills, inclining to dark brown on some of the feathers ; 

 under surface of quills uniform dark brown. " Bill and feet 

 black " {Sclater, Cat. Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 260 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 166, tail 90, 

 tarsus 31. 



The male of this species is not represented in the McConnell 

 collection, and the specimen described was collected by H. Whitely 

 on Mount Roraima in January 1882, and is now in the British 

 Museum — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface dark green, 

 somewhat paler on the tail and outer aspect of the major upper 

 wing-covevts and flight-quills ; the inner webs of the bastard- 

 wing blackish ; inner webs of the primary-coverts and flight-quills 

 also blackish, margined with white on the inner edges ; fore part 

 of head and sides of the face much darker and inclining to 

 blackish; the feathers on the forehead, hind-neck, and sides of 

 neck have pale shaft-lines ; throat dusky-grey with pale shaft- 

 streaks; breast, abdomen, sides of the body, and under wing- 



