542 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



692. Hemithraupis hellmayri, 



Merumb Tanagbb, 



Hemithraupis Jiellmayri Berlepsch, Verh. v. Intern. Orn. Kongr. 



Berlin, 1910, p. 1082, 1912 (Merume Mts.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, 



B. S. Amer. i. p. 424, no. 4369, 1912. 

 Nemosia guira Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 212 (Merumg Mts.). 

 Nemosia flameollis Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 225 part, 1886 



(Merumfi Mts.). 



Adult male. Orown o£ head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind- 

 neck, mantle, scapulars, wings, and tail blackish brown ; back, 

 upper taiUcoverts, throat, and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; 

 some of the primary-quills white at the base, which forms a more 

 or less obscured wing-speculum ; breast, abdomen, and sides of 

 body greyish white becoming yellowish on the vent ; axillnries, 

 ■under wing-coverts, and base of quills below white ; remainder of 

 quill-lining blackish brown ; lower yspect of tail similar but rather 

 paler and having whitish shafts to the feathers. 



Total length 118 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 71, tail 52, 

 tarsus 17. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being smoke- 

 brown on the upper surface with yellowish fringes to the wing 

 and tail-feathers and dull yellow on the under parts. Wing 63 miTi. 



The specimens described were collected at the Great Fulls 

 Demerara River, August 1912. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Meinme Mountains ( Wliiiely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



693. Hemitliraupis roraimse. 



RORAIMA GrUIRA TaNAGER. 



(Plate VIII. figs. 1, 2.) 



Nemosia guira Salvin, Ibis, 1885, j). 212 (pai-t) (Roraima, 3000-4000 ft.); 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 224 (part), 1886 (Koraima). 

 Nemosia guira roraimce Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. xxv. p. 88, 1910 



(Mt. Roraima). 

 Hemithraupis roraimw Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 425, 



no. 4377, 1912. 



Adidt male. Grown of head, hind-neck, niantle, upper back, 



