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coverts dark oil-green ;■ under wing-coverts olive-green ; quill- 

 lining white at the base, dark brown on the apical portion ; lower 

 aspect of tail pale brown with white shafts to the feathers. 



Total length 168 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 99, tail 70, 

 tarsus 21. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 94 mm. 



The male and female described were collected at Bartica in 

 1911. 



Breeding-season, Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



JS^est. " Builds in -the coconut-trees a nest of dry sticks " 

 (^H. Lloyd Price), 



Eggs. " The eggs are greyish white- spotted with black " 

 {H. Lloyd Price). 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 River, Supenaam River, Bartica, Abary River, Arawai River 

 (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Bartica (Whitely) ; 

 Bartica and Hoorie Creek {Beehe); Georgetown [Quelch). 



Eutralimital Range. Tiinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, . 

 Peru. Bolivia, BraziL 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 670) that this 

 species is more usually met with near the coast, especially in 

 the settlers' towns, in plantations, and outskirts of woods. It is 

 j-ather numerous and, like Tanagra episcopus, generally met in 

 pairs flitting about the Coco- and Coal-palms, where they are 

 supposed to nest. It is less common inland. The " Warraus " call 

 it Muhi and the " Macusis " Sickuhi, and the settlers Brown- 

 sacky. 



Mr. H. Lloyd Price (Timehri (2) v. p. 63), writing on the nests 

 and eggs of some common Guiana Birds, remarks: — "A third 

 kind of a grey colour {Tanagra palmarum) builds in the coconut- 

 trees a nest of dry sticks ; the eggs are greyish white Spotted 

 with black." 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. pp. 80, 81) observed this species 

 in Georgetown, and remarks : — "Another Tanager often met with, 

 and very common among the cocoanut-palms among which they 

 chiefly make their nests, is the so-called Palm Sackie ( Tanagra 

 palmarum). These birds in their habits and diet closely resemble 

 the two preceding species. Both this bird and the two preceding 

 are frequently snared by boys and kept in cages for sale, though, 

 as song-birds, there is no value to be placed upon them. Among 



