PIRANGA. — CYANICTERUS. 527 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (JPenard), Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus CYANICTERUS Bonap. 



Gyanictervs Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 240, 1850. Type C. venustus 

 Bonap. = (7. cyanicterus (VieilL). 



Pig. 191. — Cyanicterus cyanicterus. 



This mqnotypic genus is readily distinguished by its bright 

 blue and yellow plumage. The bill is proportionately long, 

 compressed on the apical portion, and hooked at the tip of the 

 upper mandible, but there is no trace ot' a tooth on its cutting- 

 edges. The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth 

 primaries longest and equal, and the first about equal in length to 

 the fifth. The tail is slightly rounded at the tip and rather more 

 than half the length of the wing. The tarsus only slightly exceeds 

 the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration: male and female 

 different. 



682. Cyanicterus cyanicterus. 



Purple-blue Tanager. 



Pyranga cyanictera Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxviii. p. 290, 1819 



(Cayenne) ; id. Gal. Ois. pi. 81, 1825 ; Puch. Arch. Mus. Paris, vii. 



pp. 356, 379, pi. 22, 1855 (Cayenne). 

 Orthogonys cyanicterus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 211 (Merume Mts.). 

 Cyanicterus venustus Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 193, 1886 



(Merume Mts., Mazaruni River). 

 Cyanicterus cyanicterus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p, 419, 



no. 4316, 1912. 



■ Adult female. General colour of the upper surface pale blue, 

 including the crown of the head, entire back, wings, and tail ; 

 greater upper wing-coverts blackish on the inner webs ; bastard- 



