. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 540 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. Range confined to British Ouiana. Mount Roraima {McConnell collection) ; Mount Twek-quay ( Whitely). Habits. Unrecorded. Genus NEMOSIA Vieill. Nemosia Vieillot, Anal. Nouv. Ornith. p. 32, 1816. Type I^. pileata (Bodd.).. Fig. 196.—Nemosia pileata. The species that comprise this genus are birds of small size. The bill is proportionately long, slender, and pointed, its width at the base being equal to about two-thirds the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, t
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 540 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. Range confined to British Ouiana. Mount Roraima {McConnell collection) ; Mount Twek-quay ( Whitely). Habits. Unrecorded. Genus NEMOSIA Vieill. Nemosia Vieillot, Anal. Nouv. Ornith. p. 32, 1816. Type I^. pileata (Bodd.).. Fig. 196.—Nemosia pileata. The species that comprise this genus are birds of small size. The bill is proportionately long, slender, and pointed, its width at the base being equal to about two-thirds the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the four outer primaries are longest and equal. The tail is square at the tip and about five- eighths the length o£ the wing. The tarsus exceeds the length of the exposed culmen by about one-half. Coloration: male and female slightly different. 691. Nemosia pileata. Hooded Tanagee. Tanagrapileata Bodd. Tabl. Pi. Enl. p. 45, 1783 (Cayenne). Nemosia pileata Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 223,1886 ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 423, no. 4361, 1912. Adult male. Nape, entire back, wings, and tail lavender-blue; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; inner webs of flight- quills blackish with margins ; tail-feathers also blackish on the inner webs, which are narrowly edged with white and dark obsolete cross-bars on the outermost feathers ; crown of head, sides of face, and a line down the side of the neck, which extends to the sides of the breast, black ; chin, throat, and a loral streak which extends to the eye, white, like the under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts; breast, abdomen, and sides of body pale lavender-blue, inclining to white on the middle of the abdomen; under surface of flight- quills dark brown with white edges ; lower aspect of tail bluish Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resembl
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