CHLOROPHANES. 485 



Genus CHLOROPHANES Reichenb. 



CMorophanes Reiohenbach, Handb. d. s^. Orn. p. 233, 1853. Type 

 C. spiza (Linn.). 



Fig. 183. — CMorophanes spiza. 



In this genus the bill is proportionately long and inclining to 

 curve, its width at the base is about equal to half the length of 

 the exposed culuien, and the height at the nostrils about one-third. 

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

 longest and equal, the first intermediate in length between the 

 fourth and fifth. The tail is square at the tip and about five- 

 sevenths the length of the wing. The tarsus exceeds the length of 

 the exposed culmen by about one-sixth. Coloration: male and 

 female different. 



654. Chloroplianes spiza. 



Gbeen Honey-Ceeepee. 



Certhia spiza Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 188, 1758 (Surinam). 



Dacnis spiza Cab. in Sohomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 675, 1848. 



Chlorophanes spiza Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 206 (Boraima, Merume Mts., 

 Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 29, 1886 (Bartioa 

 Grove, Eoraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 397, 

 no. 4085, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour both above and below glossy blue 

 with green reflections in certain lights ; crown of head, nape, and 

 entire sides of face velvety black ; outer aspect of wings darker 

 than the back ; inner webs of flight-quills and tail-feathers bluck ; 

 under wing-coverts also black ; under surface of flight-quills and 

 lower aspect of tail dull black. 



Total length 135 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 72, tail 49, 

 tarsus 18. 



The male described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 October 1908. 



