TANGAEA. 507 



neck, back, wings, and tail ; the black centres on the tipper back, 

 median, and greater upper wing-coverts are Inore extensive and 

 tlie margins inclining to bluish green, like the outer edges of the 

 flight-quills and tail-feathers ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish 

 brown margined with white ; rump and upper tail-coverts briglit 

 green, the dark centres having become almost obsolete ; inner webs 

 of tail-feathers blackish ; sides of face and sides of neck briglit 

 green only slightly dotted with black ; lores blackish ; throat, 

 fore-neck, and breast yellowish green with bold black centres to 

 the feathers ; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow, 

 the latter streaked with green ; sides of body green ; under wing- 

 coverts white tinged with yellow; iinder surface of flight-quills 

 dark brown edged with white ; lower aspect of tail greenish grej'. 

 " Bill blackish; feet dark cinereus " (Cat. B. Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 132 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 67, tail 47, 

 tarsus 18. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 66 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, 

 and the specimens from which the descriptions are taken are in 

 the British Museum, Salvin-Godman collection, collected by the 

 late Henry Whitely on Mount Roraima, at an altitude of 6000 ft., 

 during August and September 1883. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima and Kukenam 

 Mountains {Wldtely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam [Penard), JSorth Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana, 



669. Tangara guttata.. 



Larger Spotted Tanager, 



Callospiza punctata (nee Linn.) Cab. in Schomb. Eels. Guian. iii. p. 669, 



1848. 

 Callospiza guttata Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 26, 1851 (Roraima). 

 Calliste quttatH Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 209 (Eoraima, 3500-4000 ft.) ; 



Solater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 105, 1886 (Eoraima). 

 Tangara guttata Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Am^r. i. p. 405, no, 4167, 



1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts grass-green with 



