THRADPIS. 515 



Tliraupis episcopus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 415, no. 4270, 



1912. 

 Thraupis episcopus episcopus Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 137, 



1917 (Bartica). 



" Blue Sacky " (Schomburgk) ; " Blue Sakie " (Quelch). 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, throat, and lesser 

 upper wing-coverts silvery grey ; upper back and scapulars 

 greenish blue ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts lavender- 

 blue ; greater upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 iind outer aspect of flight-quills blue, inner portion of the quills 

 black becoming paler on the margins ; tail-feathers blue, darker 

 on the inner webs ; breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under 

 wing-coverts lavender-blue somewhat paler on the last ; flight- 

 quills below dark brown ; lower aspect of tail bluish. 



Total length 157 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 93, tail 62, 

 tarsus 22. 



The specimen described was collected at Bartica in 1911. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but less bright in its 

 plumage. Wing 93 mm. 



The female described was collected at Mount Roraima by 

 Mr. McConnell during his expedition in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Nest. " The nests made of small sticks, pieces of cane-trash, 

 etc., and lined with dry grass, may be found hidden in the leaves 

 of many low trees " (^H. Lloyd Price) . 



Eggs. " The eggs, usually three in number, are of greyish white 

 spotted with different shades of brown " {H. Lloyd Price). 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Ituribisi River, Bartica, Abary River (MeConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima, Kamakusa, Bartica ( Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Northern Brazil. 



Habits. This species, according to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 670), is found in great numbers along the coast in the settlers' 

 towns and in the plantations. It may always be seen flitting about 

 the Coco- and Coal-Palms, in which it is said to build its nest. 

 It is called by the settlers Blue-sacky. 



The following note has been copied from Mr. H. Lloyd Price 

 (Timehri (2) v. p. 63), who, when writing on the nests and eggs of 

 some common Guiana Birds, remarks : — " Numbers of light bluish 



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