TANGARA. 513 



Range in British Guiana. Bonasika River [McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitely). 



E.vtraliviital Range. Surinam {ffenard), Bolivia, South-east 

 and Central Peru. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



674. Tangara whitelyi. 



Whitely's Tanagee. 



Calliste whitelyi Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 445, pi. xiii. (Roraima) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 210; Sclaier, Cat.-B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 136, 



188G (Roraima). 

 Tangara whitelyi Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 410, no. 4226, 



1912. 



Adult male. Crown o£ head, sides of face, Ihroat, sca[)ulars, 

 wings, and tail black ; inner edges of fligLt-ijuills whitish ; entire 

 back, including the upper tail-coverts, breast, sides of body, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts iridescent golden straw-colour 

 with dark bases to the feathers; axillaries and under wing- coverts 

 white ; inner margins of quills below silvery-white ; under surface 

 of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail blackish brown with a 

 tinge of blue on the latter. 



Total length 129 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 71, tail 47, 

 tarsus 19. 



Adult female. Crown of head, nape, and sides efface dark lead- 

 grey with dark centres to the feathers ; entire back and upper 

 tail-coyerts yellowish iridescent green ; upper wins^-coverts dark 

 green with the inner portion of the feathers black like the inner- 

 most secondary-quills ; flight-quills black with blue on the outer 

 edges and white on the inner margins ; tail-feathers black with 

 dark greenish blue on the outer margins ; throat and fore-neck 

 grey with whitish' margins to the feathers ; abdomen, sides of 

 body, and under tail-coverts yellowish green ; under wing-coverts 

 white. Wing 71 mm. 



The male and female described were collected at Mount Roraima 

 by Mr. McConnell during his expedition, October 1898. 



The young male in its first plumage is similar to that of the 

 adult female. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



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