496 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Range in British Guiana. Takuta Mountains, Rapununi River 

 (^McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam {Penard), North Brazil. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



661. Tanagra cMorotica. 



PURPLE-THKOATED E aPHONIA. 



Tanaqra cMorofica Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 317, 1766 (" Cayania ") ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 399, no. 4105, 1912. 

 Huphonia cMorotica Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 64, 1886 



(Demerara) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 319, 1910 



(Aremu Kiver). 



Adult male. Crown of headj sides of face, hind-neck, sides of 

 neck, and sides of breast dark purple with a violet tinge in certain 

 lights ; back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts 

 steel-blue ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills black, 

 a large patch of white on the inner webs of the flight-qnills com- 

 mencing on the fourth outer primary, which becomes much more 

 extensive on the secondaries, the three outer primaries margined 

 with smoke-brown on the inner webs; tail blue-black, the two 

 outer feathers largely marked with white on the inner webs ; fore 

 part of the head to the line of the eyes orange-yellow like the 

 throat, breast, sides of body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; 

 axillaries yellow ; marginal under wing-coverts blapk, the 

 remainder white like the inner lining of the quills below, the 

 remainder of which are blackish ; lower aspect of tail black, with 

 white on the two outer feathers. 



Total length 91 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 55, tail 29, 

 tarsus 15. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Supenaam River in 1913. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface olive-green ; 

 inner webs of flight-quills blackish margined with white j tail- 

 feathers blackish with more or less white on some of the lateral 

 ones ; throat, middle of abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 pale ash-grey; breast and sides of body greenish yellow ; axillaries 

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

 flight-quills blackish brown with white margins ; lower aspect of 

 tail dark brown, somewhat paler at the tips of some of the outer 

 feathers. "Wing 50 mm. 



