. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 538 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 689. EuGometis penicillata. Grey-and-white Crested Tanager, Tananra penicillata Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 36, pi. xlix. 1825 (Brazil). JSucometis penicillata Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 217, 1886; Brabourne & Cliubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 422, no. 4350, 1912. Adult male. Entire back, wings, and tail citron-yellow ; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown ; crown o£ bead, sides of face, and hind-neck ash-grey, much paler and inclining to white on the crest, and much dar
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 538 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 689. EuGometis penicillata. Grey-and-white Crested Tanager, Tananra penicillata Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 36, pi. xlix. 1825 (Brazil). JSucometis penicillata Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 217, 1886; Brabourne & Cliubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 422, no. 4350, 1912. Adult male. Entire back, wings, and tail citron-yellow ; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown ; crown o£ bead, sides of face, and hind-neck ash-grey, much paler and inclining to white on the crest, and much darker on the base of the forehead ; the feathers in front of the eye are short and texture; throat greyish white ; remainder of the under surface orange-yellow including the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; under surface of flight- quills dark brown, tinged with buff on the margins. Total length 174 mm., exposed cuhnen 10, wing 95, tail 81, tarsus 22. The specimen described was collected on the Abary River in June 1906. Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 85 mm. Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. I\est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. JSggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. Range in British Guiana. Abary River {McConnell collection). Extralirnital Range. Northern Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, East Peru. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus MITROSPINGUS Ridgw, Mitrospingus Ridgway, Auk, 1898, p. 225. Type M. eassini (Lawr.).. Fig. 195.—Mitrospingus oleagineus. The species on which this genus was founded is somewhat large in size and dull in coloration. The bill is proportionately short, its width at the base being more than half the length of the. 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 resemble the original Chubb, Charles; McConnell, Frederick Vavasour, d. 1914. London, B. Quaritch
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