. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 502 BIRDS OF BRITISH CJUIAN'A. Genus TANAGEELLA Swains. Tanagrella Swainson, Anim. Menag. part iii. p. 313, text-fig. 60, 1837. Type T. cyanomelana (Wied.).. Fig. 187.—Tanagrella velia. This genus is distinguished chiefly by its somewhnt long nnd slender bill, the exposed culmeu being about two-thirds the length o£ the tarsus. The wing is rounded, the second and third primaries longest, the first and fourth being about equal. The tail is square at the tip and about two-thirds the length o£ the wing.
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 502 BIRDS OF BRITISH CJUIAN'A. Genus TANAGEELLA Swains. Tanagrella Swainson, Anim. Menag. part iii. p. 313, text-fig. 60, 1837. Type T. cyanomelana (Wied.).. Fig. 187.—Tanagrella velia. This genus is distinguished chiefly by its somewhnt long nnd slender bill, the exposed culmeu being about two-thirds the length o£ the tarsus. The wing is rounded, the second and third primaries longest, the first and fourth being about equal. The tail is square at the tip and about two-thirds the length o£ the wing. The tarsus is equal in length to the middle toe and claw. (Joloration : male and female similar. 665. Tanagrella velia. Blue-bellied Tanager. Motacilla vrlia Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 336, 1766 (Surinam). Hypofhlypis iriJina Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 667, 1848. Tanngrella velia 8alvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 209 (lloraima, 3500 ft., Mei-nme Mts., Camacusa, Eartica Grove) ; Sclatcr, Cat. 15. Urit. Miis. xi. p. 87, 1886 (Bartica Grove, Merume Mts., Camacusa, Koraima) ; Biubourne k Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 402, no. 4138, 1912; Beebe, Tropical WildLife in British Guiana, p. 137, 1917 (Bartica). - Adult male. Crown of head, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail deep back, with blue margins to the feathers of the npper wing- coverts, flight-quills, upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers ; lower back and rump glossy straw-colour, with a tinge of green and blackish bases to the feathers ; inner webs of flight-quills margined with whitish; forehead, sides of face, short feathers round' the eye, and throat dark turquoise-blue; lores, the feathers covering the nostrils, and a band across the fore-neck, which extends on to the hinder-face, black; breast, sides of the body, and upper abdomen dark purplish blue, paler along the flanks ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts chestnut; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below white; greater. Please note that these i
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