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PACHYSYLVIA. — VIREOLANIUS. 399 



River, Makauria River {McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, 

 •Merum^ Mountains, Kamakusa, Bartica (Whitely) ; PAremu 

 River {Beehe). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus VIREOLANIUS Du Bus. 



Vireolanius Du Bus, Esquisses Ornith. pi. 26, 1850. Type V. meli- 

 tophrys Du Bus. 



Fig. 151. — To show the marKings on the side of the face. 



The species that comprise this genus are brightly coloured. 

 The bill is compressed, its depth at the nostrils is equal to more 

 than half the length of the exposed culmen, and the tip of the 

 upper mandible is sharply hooked. The wing is rounded, the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries are longest and equal, the third 

 is about equal in length to the seventh, the second about equal to 

 the ninth, and the first about three-fifths the length of the 

 second. The tail is square at the tip and about six-sevenths the 

 length of the wing. The tarsus is nearly twice the length of 

 the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female similar. 



600. Vireolanius chlorigaster. 



Bonapaete's Gkeenlet. 



Vireolanius chlorigaster Bonap. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 381, 1854 



(Cayenne) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 351, no. 3597, 



1912. 

 Vireolanius leucotis (nee Swains.) S^lvin, Ibis, 1878, p. 445, pi. xi. ; id. 



& Godm. op. cit. 1882, p. 77 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vlii. 



p. 315, 1883; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 205 (Merumg Mts., Bartica 



Grove). 



Adult female. Back, wings, and tail dark green, paler and in- 

 clining to yellowish on the margins of the greater upper wing- 

 coverts ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish with pale edges ; 



