CHLOHOPHONU. 489 



Family T/iNGARID^. 



When Brabourne & (Ihubb published their ' List of the Birds 

 of South America' in 1912, this family was represented by fifty- 

 three genera and three hundred and forty-five species. Fifteen 

 of the genera and thirty-nine of the species occur in British 

 Guiana. 



Genus CHLOBOPHONIA Bonap. 



Chlorophonia Bonaparte, Eevue Zool. 1851, p. 137. Type C viridis 

 (VieiU.) 



Fig. 185. — CUorophonia roraimas. 



The members of this genus are easily distinguished by their 

 bright colours of green, blue, and yellow. The bill is small and 

 pointed ; its depth at the nostrils is equal to about three-fourths the 

 length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded; the first four 

 primaries longest and equal. The tail is square at the tip and 

 rather more than half the length of the wing. The tarsus is 

 about twice the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : male 

 and female similar. 



656. OMoroplioiiia roraimse. 



ROEAIMA GeEEN TaNAGEE. 



Chlorophonia roraimas Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 444 (Eoraima, 

 3500-6000 ft.) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 208 ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xi. p. 56, pi. vi. fig. 1, 1886 (Koraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 399, no. 4099, 1912. 



Adult female. Crown of head, nape, sides of face, throat, and 

 fore-neck green like the upper back iand outer aspect of the 

 wings ; inner webs of bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 flight-quills black, narrowly edged with green on the outer webs 

 and more broadly margined with white on the inner ones ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark turquoise-blue like the 



