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and stout, its width at the base is more than half the length o£ 

 the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the second, third, 

 fourth, and fifth primaries longest and subequal — the first is about 

 equal in length to the seventh. The tail is rounded at the tip 

 and about seven-eighths the length of the wing, and the tarsus is 

 nearly twice the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : 

 male and female different. 



696. Schistochlamys atra. 



Black-faced G-rkt Tanager. 



Tanagra atra Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 898, 1789 (Gujanae). 

 Saltator ater Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 677, 1848. 

 Orchestious ater Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 213 (Merume Mts., Eoraima, 



SSCO to 5000 ft.). 

 ScMstochlamys atra Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 301, 1886 



(Boraima, Merume Mts.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 431, no. 4437, 1912. 



Adult male. Fore part of head, sides of face, chin, and throat 

 soot-black ; nape, hind-neck, entire back, upper tail-coverts, and 

 wings lead-grey ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish with white 

 margins ; outer edges of flight-quills like the back ; tail black, 

 some of the feathers fringed with lead-grey and edged with white 

 at the tips ; sides of neck, breast, sides of body, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts also lead-grey but paler than the back ; axil- 

 laries, under wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below greyish 

 white ; remainder of quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of 

 tail similar with pale shafts to the feathers and whitish edges at 

 the tips. 



Total length 173 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 84, tail 75, 

 tarsus 21. 



The male described was collected on the Bonasika River in 1911. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the absence of the 

 black on the top of the head, sides of face, and throat, the general 

 colour both on the upper and under surface yellowish green, being 

 paler on the latter. Wing 78 mm. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary River in 

 September 1906. 



The young male in its 'first -plumage is similar to the female, 

 as is shown by a specimen collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 1909, in which the black plumage of the male is approaching 

 on the crown of the head, sides of face, and throat. 



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