CYANERPES. 483 



17 cm. high, and 8 cm. across, while the nest hollow within 

 measured 4 cm. in diameter by 7 cm. deep. 



" There were two eggs, astonishingly black or purple-black. 

 Closer examination showed faint traces of the pale lavender 

 ground-colour, distinctly revealed at the small end and in irregular 

 streaks and minute interstices as far as the middle of the shell. 

 They measured 20*5 X 14 and 20. X 14 mm. and were quite 

 fresh." 



653. Cyanerpes cseruleua. 



Purple Honey-Ceeepeh. 



GertJiia cmrulea Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 118, 1758 (Surinam). 

 Arhelorhina cisrulea Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 675, 1848. 

 Coereba cmrulea Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 207 (Bartiea Grove, Merume Mts., 



Camacusa, Roraima, 3500 ft.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 33, 



1886 (Eoraima, Camacusa, Bartiea Grove). 

 Gyanerpes cmruleus Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 201 (Hoorie 



Creek), p. 298 (Aremu), 1910; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 397, no. 4080, 1912. 

 Cyanerpes casruleus cceruleus Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British 



Guiana, p. 136, 1917 (Bartiea). 



Adult male. General colour above and below purplish blue, 

 rather paler on the crown of the head and somewhat darker on 

 the under surface ; wings velvety black ; inner webs of flight- 

 quill* not so intensely black, as on the outer aspect, and becoming 

 paler on the inner margins ; tail uniform black ; lores, extreme 

 base of forehead, and throat velvety-black ; vent, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts black ; axillaries and under wing-coverts also 

 black, the greater series of the latter tipped with white ; under 

 surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail dull black. 



Total length 105 mm., exposed culmen 19, wing 57, tail 25, 

 tarsus 14. 



TJhe specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Mazaruni River, 1905. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface green in- 

 cluding the head, back, wings, and tail, the feathers on the head 

 have pale minute shaft-streaks ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish 

 brown with whitish inner margins ; tail-feathers dark brown on 

 the inner webs ; lores and short feathers surrounding the eye 

 rust-colour ; ear-coverts pale brown with paler minute shaft-lines 

 to the feathers ; moustachial-streak pale blue minutely dotted 

 with white ; chin and throat fawn-colour ; breast and sides of the 



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