TANAGRA. 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), South-east Brazil, Peru, 

 Ecuador, Culombia. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



660. Tanagra finschi. 



Finsch's Euphonia. 



Euphonia finscM Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 19 (British Guiana) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 70, pi. viii. fig. 1, 1886. 

 Tanagra Jlnschi Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 400, no. 4117, 



1912. 



Adult male. Throat, sides of face, hinder crown, back, wings, 

 and tail steel-blue ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish, white on 

 the basal portion ; fore part of crown, fore-neck, and breast 

 orange-yellow ; abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts 

 darker and inclining to chestnut ; axillaries sulphur-yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and base of quills below white, remainder of 

 quill-lining blackish brown ; lower aspect of tail black. 



Total length 90 mm., exposed culmen 6, wing 52, tail 29, 

 tarsus 14. 



The male described was collected in the Upper Takutu Moun- 

 tains in 1909. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface yellowish 

 green, more yellow on the fore part of the head and upper tail- 

 coverts ; upper wing-coverts darker and inclining to blackish in 

 the middle of the feathers ; primary-coverts and flight-qiiills 

 blackish on the inner webs, the latter fringed with white more 

 broadly towards the base ; tail-feathers also blackish fringed 

 on the outer webs with yellowish green ; sides of face and 

 entire under surface citron-yellow, somewhat paler on the 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ; axillaries lemon-yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts and base of quills white ; remainder of 

 flight-quills below and lower aspect of tail greyish brown. 

 Wing 52 mm. 



The female described was also collected in the Takutu Moun- 

 tains. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 

 Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana, 



