502 BIRDS OF BRITISH CJUIAN'A. 



Genus TANAGEELLA Swains. 



Tanagrella Swainson, Anim. Menag. part iii. p. 313, text-fig. 60, 1837. 

 Type T. cyanomelana (Wied.). 



Fig. 187. — Tanagrella velia. 



This genus is distinguished chiefly by its somewhnt long nnd 

 slender bill, the exposed culmeu being about two-thirds the length 

 o£ the tarsus. The wing is rounded, the second and third 

 primaries longest, the first and fourth being about equal. The 

 tail is square at the tip and about two-thirds the length o£ the 

 wing. The tarsus is equal in length to the middle toe and claw. 

 (Joloration : male and female similar. 



665. Tanagrella velia. 



Blue-bellied Tanager. 



Motacilla vrlia Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 336, 1766 (Surinam). 

 Hypofhlypis iriJina Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 667, 1848. 

 Tanngrella velia 8alvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 209 (lloraima, 3500 ft., Mei-nme 



Mts., Camacusa, Eartica Grove) ; Sclatcr, Cat. 15. Urit. Miis. xi. 



p. 87, 1886 (Bartica Grove, Merume Mts., Camacusa, Koraima) ; 



Biubourne k Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 402, no. 4138, 1912; Beebe, 



Tropical WildLife in British Guiana, p. 137, 1917 (Bartica). - 



Adult male. Crown of head, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail 

 deep back, with blue margins to the feathers of the npper wing- 

 coverts, flight-quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers ; lower 

 back and rump glossy straw-colour, with a tinge of green and 

 blackish bases to the feathers ; inner webs of flight-quills margined 

 with whitish; forehead, sides of face, short feathers round' the 

 eye, and throat dark turquoise-blue ; lores, the feathers covering 

 the nostrils, and a band across the fore-neck, which extends on to 

 the hinder-face, black; breast, sides of the body, and upper 

 abdomen dark purplish blue, paler along the flanks ; lower 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts chestnut ; axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below white; greater 



