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the eye, upper back, and tail bliick ; lesser upper wing-coverts 

 black broadly tipped with blue, the median and greater series 

 bliick edged with blue ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 flight-quills also black fringed with blue on the outer webs ; under 

 wing-coverts grey tinged with blue ; under surface of flight-quills 

 and lower aspect of tail dark hair-brown. 



Total length 112 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 65, tail 45, 

 tarsus 16. 



The male described was collected on the Kamakabra River, 

 1911. 



Adult female. General colour for the most part green both on 

 the upper and under surface ; hind-neck and upper back green, 

 becoming much brighter green on the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ; upper wing-coverts blackish fringed with 

 green ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; flight-quills 

 black, fringed with green on the outer webs and inclining to 

 whiti.--h on the margins on the inner webs ; tail blackish with 

 green margins to the feathers on the outer webs and obsolete 

 cross-bars on the middle feathers ; crown of head and sides of 

 face pale blue ; throat ash-grey. Wing 61 mm. 



The female desci'ibed was collected at Bartica in 1911* 



The young male in its first plumage is similar to the adult 

 female. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in Britisii Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Ituribisi River, Supe- 

 naam River, Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika Rivgr, Makauria 

 River, Arawai River. Great Falls Demerara River, Arwye Creek 

 (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Kamakusa, Bartica, 

 Merume Mountains [Whitely) ; Georgetown (Quelch). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Venezuela, Trinidad, 

 Eastern Brazil. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 675) 

 this species is found in large flocks throughout British Guiana. 

 It is especially fond of light copses as well as isolated young- 

 trees — particularly the fJecropia species in cultivated fields, on 

 the edges of the Oacis and near the river banks. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) V. p. 7^), who observed this 

 species in Georgetown, remarks: — "Another of this same group 



