PIRANGA. ,523 



Eggs. Undpscribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. MonniHoreamn {Wliitelif). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam [Penard), Trinidad, Venezueln, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. Northward through Central 

 America to the United States. 



Habits. Mr. J. J. Qnelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 263), writing on tlte 

 migratory birds in British Guiana, remarks : — " It is noteworthy 

 that in the case of the Red-birds {Pyranga cestiva) they seem to 

 occur only on the high lands of the interior, having never been 

 taken on the coast lands." 



679. Piranga liaemalea. 

 RoRAiMA Red Tanager.. 



Phcenicosoma azarce (nee d'Orh.) Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. 



p. 608, 1848. 

 Pyranga hcemalea Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 188^3, p. 205 ; Salvin, Ibis, 



1885, p. 211 (Koraima, 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. 



p. 185, 1886 (Roraima). 



Nearly adult male. General colour of the upper surface crimson- 

 red, including the crown of the head, sides of the face, entire 

 back, wings, and tail ; inner webs of the upper wing-coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackish, much 

 paler and inclining to rose-pink on the inner margins of, 

 the last; some of the innermost secondaries on one of the' 

 wings show traces of immaturity, as do also one of the tail- 

 feathers ; under surface also red but paler than on the upper 

 parts, with a sign of immaturity on one side of the breast ;• under 

 wing-coverts, inner edges of quills below, and lower aspect of tail 

 rose-pink, remainder of the under surface of the flight-quills dark 

 brown. 



Total length 173 mm.j exposed culmen 18, wing QQ^ tail 72^ 

 tarsus 20. 



Adult female, Entirely different to the adult male, being, 

 greenish yellow on the upper surface and sides of the face ; inner- 

 webs of the upper wing-coverts and flight-quills blackish, paler 

 on the inner margins of the last; tail rather darker than the 

 back; under surface oldrgold yellow, paler on the under tail- 

 coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner edges of flight- 



