508 BIKeS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



a golden yellow ting6, including the crown o£ the head, hind- 

 neck, sides of neck, back, upper tail-coverts, and middle tail- 

 feathers with black centres and dark grey bases to the feathers ; 

 upper wing black margined with blue, flight-quills also black 

 edged with blue on the outer webs and with white on the 

 inner ones ; tail-feathers black margined with green on the outer 

 webs and very narrowly with white on the inner ones ; loral space 

 black ; base of forehead and eye-ring golden yellow ; sides of 

 face black with yellowish green margins to the feathers ; throat, 

 breast, and abdomen dull white with black pear-shaped centres to 

 the feathers ; lower flanks green ; lower abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ochreous green ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white 

 like the inner edges of the quills below, remainder of the quill- 

 lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail dark bluish grey with 

 whitish shaft-lines. 



Total length 129 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 71, tail 52, 

 tarsus 20. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but differs in having 

 the under surface whiter, the black central spots to the feathers 

 less pronounced, and rather smaller in wing-measurement. Wing 

 66 mm. 



The male and female described were collected bj Mr. McOonnell 

 at Mount Roraima during his expedition in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Gruiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana, Mount Roriama {Mc Connell collectiori) ; 

 Mount Roraima (Whitely). 



Kxtralimital Range. Surinam (Penard'), Venezuela, Trinidad. 



Habits. In regard to this species Schoniburgk writes {Reis. 

 Guian. iii. p. 669) that he first met with it in the vicinity of the 

 Roraima Mountains. Its habits and mode of life are similar to 

 those of Tangara paradisea, p. 504. 



670. Tangara cayana. 



Cayenne Tanager. 



Tanagra cayana Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 385, 1766 (Cayenne). 

 Callospiza cayana Cab. in Schonib. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 670, 1848. 



