446 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Mazaruni River, Arawai River, Great Falls Demerara River 

 (McConnell collection) ; Merume Mountains, Kamakusa, Bartica 

 (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Cayenne {Linne), 

 Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 677) that he 

 found this bird fairly commou — tholigh always single — on Aruku 

 and near the coast. 



Genus PERIPORPHYRUS Bonap. 



Periporpliyrus Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 503, 1851. Type P. erytliro- 

 melas (Grmel.). 



Fig. 168. — Perijporphyrus erytJiromelas. 



This genus differs chiefly in having the nostrils more exposed, 

 the third and fourth primaries longest, the second equal to the 

 fifth, and the first only slighitly shorter than the sixth. The tail 

 is about nine-tenths the length of the wing, and the male is dis- 

 tinguished by its bright red/coloration, while the female is chiefly 

 yellow. 



632. Periporpliyrus erjrtlironielas. 



SOAELBT KeRNEL-EATBB. 



Loicia erytJiromelas Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 859, 1789 (Cayenne). 

 JPitylus erythromelas Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 213 (Camacusa) ; Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 305, 1886 (Demerara, Camacusa, Eoraima) ;. 



Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 315, 1910 (Aremu River) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 370, no. 8798, 1912; Beebe, 



Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 136, 1917 (Bartica). 



" Black-headed Scarlet Grosbeak " {Beebe) . 



Adult male. Entire head, sides of face, and throat deep black; 

 back, wings, and tail deep red ; primary-ooyerts bronze-brown, 



