TACHYPHONUS, 535 



Extralim'ital Range. Surinam (Penard), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



687. Tacliyphoims surinamus. 



Fulvous-crested Tanager. 



Tiirdus surinamus Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 297, 1766 (Surinam). 



Tachyphoniis ocJiropygos Cab. in Scliomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 668, 1848. 



Tachyphonus surinamus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Bartica Grove, 

 Merume Mts., Camacusa, Atapurau River, Roraima, .3500 to 

 4000 ft.)!; Selater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 211, 1886 (Bartica 

 Grove, Merume Mts., Atapurrow River) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. 

 S. Amer. i. p. 421, no. 4.339, 1912. 



Tachyphonus surinamus surinamus Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in 

 British Guiana, p. 137, 1917 (Bartica). 



Adult male. General colour of the plumage, both on the upper 

 and under surface, glossy black, including the fore-part of the 

 head, sides o£ face, back, wings, and tail with steel-blue reflections 

 on the upper back; middle of crown orange-colour fading to 

 straw-yellow on the nape ; rump pale fawn-colour; lesser upper 

 wing-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins 

 of flight-quills, on the basal portion, pure white ; some of the 

 feathers on the lower flanks tipped with deep chestnut. 



Total length 156 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 85, tail 71, 

 tarsus 18. 



The specimen described above was collected on the Ituribisi 

 River in November 1908. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface yellowish 

 green, including the sides of the face, entire back, wings, and 

 tail ; crown of head and nape slate-grey ; inner webs of flight- 

 quills dark brown; under surface, including the throat, breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts, fawn-colour ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white ; under surface of flight-quills and 

 lowfer aspect of tail dark brown. Wing 80 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Anarica River. 



Immature male. In its first plumage is similiir to the adult 

 female, the first approach of the male dress, in this specimen, 

 being on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



