522 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



678. Pii'anga rubra. 



SuMMEB Red Tanager. 



^rinpilla rubra Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 181, 1758 (Carolina"). 



Fyrcmga cestiva Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 210 (Eoraima) ; Sclater, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xi. p. 182, 1886 (Eoraima) ; Quelcli, Timehri (2) x. 



p. 263, 1896 (migration). 

 Piranga rubra Brabourne <& Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 418, no. 4307, 



1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts dark dull red, 

 including the top of the head, back, upper tail-coverts, tail, upper 

 ■wing-coverts, and outer aspect of flight-quilis, the inner webs of 

 the last blackish ; throat and entire under surface bright red ; 

 under surface of flight-quills pale brown ; lower aspect of tail 

 similar to its upper surface. 



Total length 172 nun., exposed culmen 16, wing 101, tail 73, 

 tarsus 23, middle toe and claw 21. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, nor 

 is there a male specimen, from British Guiana, in tlie British 

 Museum ; the above description, therefore, is taken from a specie 

 men in the National collection, collected at Merida, Venezuela. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface ochreous- 

 yellow, including the top of the head, back, upper wing-coverts, 

 and outer aspect of quills, inner webs of the last brown with 

 whitish inner margins ; tail inclining to cinnamon ; throat and 

 fore-neck orange-yellow, becoming paler yellow on the abdomen, 

 sides of body, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts similar, inclining to buff on the greater series ; quill- 

 lining pale brown with yellowish margins. Wing 94 mm. 



The description of the female is taken from a specimen in the 

 British Museum, collected by the late Henry. Whitely in January 

 1881 on Mount Roraima, Salvin-Gpdman collection. 



Immature male. Similar to the adult female in its first plumage. 

 In the present specimen the red is commencing to appear on the 

 sides of the face, back, upper tail-coverts, throat, breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts. 



The immature male was also collected at Mount Roraima by 

 Whitely in October 1883. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



