TANAGRA, 493 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), North-east Brazil. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 671) 

 tlie distribution and habits of this species are the same as those 

 o£ T. violacea, p. 498. 



658. Tanagra cyanocephala. 



Blaok-necked Euphonia. 



Ftpra cyanocephala Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix. p. 165, 1819 



(Trinidad). 

 JSupJionia nigricollis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 208 (Eoraima, 3500 ft.) ; 



Sol. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 61, 1886 (Roraima). 

 Tanagra cyanocephala Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 399, 



no. 4103, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape blue ; mantle, upper 

 back, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts bluish black with a violet 

 tinge ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish ; lower back, rump, 

 and short upper tail-coverts yellow, long upper tail-coverts and 

 tail steel-blue ; base of forehead, sides of face, and throat black ; 

 breast, abdomen, sides of body, and short under tail-coverts 

 orange-yellow, long under tail-coverts lemon-yellow; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts pale lemon-yellow ; under surface of 

 quills dark brown with pale margins ; lower aspect of tail also 

 dark brown. 



Total length 105 mm., exposed culmen 5, wing 61, tail 34, 

 tarsus 13. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the back, 

 wings, and tail olive-green and the under surface citron-yellow, 

 brighter on the middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts. 

 Base of forehead orangf-yellow, instead of black. Wing 61 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the specimens fi'om which the descriptions have been taken are in 

 the British Museum, Salvin-Godman collection. The male was 

 collected by the late Henry Whitely at Mount Roraima, 3500 ft., 

 May 1883. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed fi-om British Guiana. 



Mange in JBritish Guiann. Mount Roraima (TFAiieZ?/). 



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

 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. 



Habits. Unrecorded iu British Guiana. 



