TAN AGRA. 497 



The female described is in the British Museum, Gould collection, 

 and is said to have come from Demerara. 



Breeding- season. Unknown in British Guiansj. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in Brilisli Guiana. Supenaam River {McConnell col- 

 lection); Demerara {British Museum). 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne (Linne), Surinam (JPenard), 

 North Brazil. 



Habits. The following note has been copied from Beebe (Our 

 Search for a Wilderness, p. 319) : — " Tiny male Purple-throated 

 Euphonias clad in purple jackets, yellow caps, and waistcoats. 

 They were ridiculously tame, and sang their simple chattering 

 song in our faces." 



662. Tanagra minuta. * 



White-vented Euphonia. 



Euphonia minuta Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 671, 1848 ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 208 (Bartica Grove, Camaousa) ; Sclater, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xi. p. 71, 1886 (Camacusa, Bartica Grove). 



Tanagra olivacea Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 401, no. 4119, 191 2. 



Tanagra olivacea olivacea Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, 

 p. 136, 1917 (Bartica). 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape glossy steel-blue ; throat, 

 sides of face, back, wings, and tail glossy steel-blue : flight-quills 

 black on the inner webs fringed with white on the basal portion 

 on all, except the first or outermost, the white increasing in 

 extent towards the inner secondaries where it covers the greater 

 part of the inner web; lateral tail-feathers black on the inner 

 webs and marked with white on the apical portion of the three 

 outer ones, which decreases in extent towards the middle feathers; 

 fore-neck, breast, abdomen, and sides of body orange-yellow; 

 axillaries lemon-yellow; vent, thighs, under tail-coverts, under 

 wing-coverts, and base of quills below white ; remainder of flight- 

 quills below and lower aspect of tail blackish, the latter extensively 

 marked with white on the outer 'feathers. 



Total length 86 mm., ex:posed culmen 8, wing 52, tail 26, 

 tarsus 12. 



The male described was collected by Mr. McConnell on the 

 Cotinga River during his expedition to Mount Roraima in Octo- 

 ber 1898. 



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