TANAGRA. 



499 



Tanaqra violacea Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 401, no. 4122, 

 1912; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 136, 1910 

 (Bartica). 



Tanaqra violacea rodwayi Penard, Proc. New Engl. Zool. CI. vii. p. 30, 

 i)ec. 1919. 



"Canary," "Bastard-Canary" (Quelch). 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides o£ face, nape, and upper back 

 glossy purple, becoming glossy steel-blue on the lower back, 

 scapulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; fligbt-quills black 

 fringed with steel-blue on the outer webs and white on the inner 

 ones which commences on the fifth primary, increasing in extent 

 towards the inner secondaries, where it covers the whole of the 

 inner web for more than half the length of the feather ; inner 

 webs of tail-feathers black with an oblique patch of white on the 

 inner web near the tip of the outer feather; fore part of head, 

 throat, and breast orange-yellow, becoming paler on the abdomen, 

 sides of body, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries sulphur-yellow ; 

 linder wing-coverts and base of inner quills below white ; marginal 

 under wing-coverts, greater series, and flight-quills below blackish; 

 lower aspect of tail black with a patch of white on the outermost 

 feather on eiich side. 



Total length 98 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 57, tail 29, 

 tarsus 14. 



The male described was collected on the Bonasika Eiyer in 

 1912. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface yellowish 

 bronze-green, including the crown of the head, entire back, wings, 

 and tail ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills black, 

 fringed with bronze-green on the outer webs, paler and inclining 

 to white on the margins of the inner webs ; lateral tail-feathers 

 black margined with bronze-green on the outer webs, there is a 

 slight trace of a white spot on the inner web of the outermost 

 feather near the tip; lores and eye-ring composed of very short 

 whitish feathers ; sides of face similar to the back ; throat and re- 

 mainder of the under surface greenish yellow, somewhat paler on 

 tlie middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts; axillaries, under 

 tail-coverts, and inner webs of quills at the base below white; 

 remainder of quill-lining liair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar 

 with a slight trace of white on the outer feather. "Wing 56 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 October 1908. 



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