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647. Coereba guianensis. 



GciANA Flowee-pecker. 



Oertliiola flaveola (nee Linn.) Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 075, 



1848, 

 Oertliiola guianensis Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 97, 1851 (Guiana). 

 Gerthiola chloropyga (nee Cab.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 207 (Bartiea 



Grove, Camaeusa, Ataparau Eiver, Eoraima, 3500-4000 ft.) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 44, 1886 (Eoraima, Atapurow 



Eiver, Camaeusa, Bartiea Grove) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) v. pp. 77, 



78, 1891 (Georgetown). 

 Gcereba guianensis Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 391, no. 4021, 



1912. 



" Pipi-tooree," " Flower-pecker" (Quelch). 



Adult. Crown of head, sides of face, bade, wings, and tail 

 blackish ; rump and upper tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; flight-quills 

 blackish, white at the base on the inner webs and on both webs of 

 some of the primaries ; tail also blackish, some of the outer 

 fo.ithers edged with white at the tip ; a white supraloral streak 

 which extends over the eye and along the sides of the crown ; 

 ciieeks, chin, and throat ash-grey ; breast, abdomen, and sides of 

 the body yellow; under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, 

 and inner edges of quills beJow white, remainder of flight-quills 

 below and lower aspect of tail blackish, some of the outer feathers 

 of the latter are edged with white at the tips. 



Total length 93 inm., exposed culmen 11, wing 51, tail 31, 

 tarsus 15. 



The bird described was collected on the Mazaruni Eiver iii 

 October 1907. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but rather paler on 

 the upper surface. Wing 51 mm. 



The specimen described was collected at Bartiea in October 

 1879 by the late Henry Whitely, now in the British Museum, 

 Salvin- Grodman collection. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the upper surface 

 dusky-brown, the rump inclining to green, and the chin yellow 

 like the rest of the under surface. 



The young bird mentioned above was collected by Mr. McGon- 

 nell at Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Gruiana. 



Mest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



JSggs. Undescribed from British Guiana 



