484 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



body yellowish white with green, or bluish green, margins to the 

 feathers becoming almost uniform yellow on the middle o£ the 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts cream-white darker on the greater series of the 

 latter ; under surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale inner 

 margins ; lower aspect of tail dark brown. Wing 54 mm. 



The female described was, collected on' the Bonasika River in 

 December 1898. 



Immature male. Similar to the adult female but differs in 

 having the back darker and more bluish green, the wings becoming 

 velvety black, and the approach of black feathers on the throat. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Gruiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



J^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Ituribisi River, 

 Snpenaam River, Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, 

 Makauria River, Mazaruni River, Abary River, Great Falls 

 Demerara River, Arawai River (McConnell collection) ; Mount 

 Roraima, Merume Mountains, Kamakusa, Bartica ( Whitely) ; 

 Hoorie Creek (Beele). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam {Penard), Venezuela, Northern 

 Brazil, 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 675) that the 

 mode of life and haunts of this species are similar to those of 

 Arhelorhina cyanea, p. 480. 



The following notes are quoted from Beebe (Our Search for a 

 Wilderness, p. 201) : — "A dainty Blue Honey-Creeper alighted on 

 the bow of our canoe ; rich deep blue except for wings, tail, and 

 throat, which were black. The feet and legs were clear yellow, 

 showing most conspicuously against the plumage." 



Id. p. 298 : — " Three Blue Honey-Creepers — two males and 

 one green female — dashed here and there in the branches close 

 overhead. They uttered sharp cheeps, until the males flew at 

 each other and began fighting furiously — ascending for fifty feet 

 in a whirling spiral of hazy blue and black, and then clinching 

 and falling to earth, where they clung together claw to claw, 

 and pecked viciously and in silence, their beautiful plumage 

 dishevelled and broken. The lady, heartless cause of all this 

 strife, cheeped in low tones overhead and nonchalantly plucked 

 invisible dainties from the undersides of leaves." 



