coccopsis. 467 



chiefly by its thin bill, short feathers on the throat, and rounded 

 tail. The bill is proportionately long and somewhat depressed at 

 the base, where the width exceeds its depth by about one-third. 

 The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries 

 longest and eqnal, the first about equal in length to the fifth. 

 Tlie tail is rounded at the tip and nearly six-sevenths the length 

 of the wing; the middle tail-feathers exceed the outermost by 

 about 10 mm. The tarsus exceeds the length of the exposed 

 culinen by about one-third. Coloration: male and female similar. 



644. Coccopsis gularis. 

 Black-throated Cardinal. 



Tanap-a gularis Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 316, 1766 (Guiana). 



Calyphtrophorus gularis Cab. in Schomb. Kois. Gruian. iii. p. 678, 1848. 



Coccopsis gularis Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 145, 1851. 



Passerina gularis Brown, Canoe and Camp Life in British Guiana, 

 p. 225, 1876: 



Varoaria nigrigenis (nee Lafr.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 215 (Camacusa). 



Paroaria gularis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 813, pi. xvi. fig. 4, 

 1888 (Camacusa) ; QubIcIi, Timehri (2) iv. p. ,334, 1890 (Upper 

 Berbice River) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 385, no. 3952, 

 1912 ; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 136, 1917 

 (Bartica). 



" Fall-bird " {Brown). 



Adult male. Entire back, wings, and tail glossy blue-black, the 

 bases to the feathers on the back pale grey ; inner edges of 

 flight-quills white; crown of head, sides of face, and chin red; 

 lores and feathers round the eye black; lower throat glos-y black 

 with dark red bases to the feathers ; breast, abdomen, si.ies of 

 body, and uiiler tail-coverts white, as are also the axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below; greater under 

 wing-coverts black, which forms a patch near the outside edge of 

 the wing ; under surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail 

 black. 



Total lengtli 165 mm., exposed culiuen 13, wing 86, tail 74, 

 tarsus 22. . 



The male described was collected by Mr. McConnell on the 

 Bonasika River in December. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 78 mm. 



A young bird from the Upper Takutu Mountains differs from 

 the adult in having the entire upper surface dusky-brown, crown 



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