. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. CYANOOOMPSA. 421 Family FRINGILLID^. This family, which is ahnost cosmopolitan in its distribution, was represented in South America by fifty-six genera and one thousand three hundred and twelve species at the time when Brabourne and Chubb, in 1912, published their ' List of the Birds of South America.' Seventeen genera and thirty-three species are known to occur in British Guiana. Genus CYANOCOMPSA Cab. Oyanocompsa Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. ix. p. 4, Jan. 1861. Type C. parellina (Bonap.).. Fig. 160.—O
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. CYANOOOMPSA. 421 Family FRINGILLID^. This family, which is ahnost cosmopolitan in its distribution, was represented in South America by fifty-six genera and one thousand three hundred and twelve species at the time when Brabourne and Chubb, in 1912, published their ' List of the Birds of South America.' Seventeen genera and thirty-three species are known to occur in British Guiana. Genus CYANOCOMPSA Cab. Oyanocompsa Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. ix. p. 4, Jan. 1861. Type C. parellina (Bonap.).. Fig. 160.—Oyanocompsa rothscMldi. The species on which this genus is founded are peculiar on account of the blue plumage of the male and the coffee-brown colour of the female. The bill is stout and pointed, its width at the back of the nostrils is more than half the length of the exposed culmen, and its depth is greater than its width. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest, the second slightly longer than the sixth, and the first about equal in length to the eighth. The tail is slightly rounded at the tip and about three- fourths the length of the wing. The tarsus exceeds the length of the exposed culmen by about one-fourth. Coloration : male and female different. 615. Oyanocompsa rothsohildi. Eothschild's Blue Grosbeak Ouiraca cyanea (nee Linn.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 213 (Bartica Grove Camaousa); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. lii. p. 71, 1888 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa). Guiraca rothscliildii Bartlett, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. vi.) vi. p. 168, 1890 (Caramang Eiver).. 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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