386 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



1892 (Rupurumi Eiver) ; Hartert, Tierreich, Trochil. p. 24. 1900 ; 

 Bi-abom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 108, no. 1029, 1912. 

 Fhaethornis rupurununi Sharpe, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 100, 1900. 



Adult male. Head, back, and upper wing-coverts bronze-green, 

 darker and somewhat dusky on the head, lores, and ear-coverts ; 

 upper tail-coverts edged with rufous ; tail-feathers bronze-green 

 edged and tipped with white, the outer feathers darker ; a line 

 above and behind the eye and moustachial streak buff ; throat 

 blackish with grey edges to the feathers ; remainder of the under 

 surface grey with dark bases to the feathers and inclining to white 

 on the under tail-coverts. 



Total length 110 mm., culmen 2t)^ wing 43, tail 44. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the description of the male is taken from an example in the 

 British Museum collected by Whitely on the Rupununi River 

 on March 31st, 1890 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



We have not seen a female of this species and cannot, there- 

 fore, say what the differences between the sexes are. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Rupununi River and Annai 

 ( Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Orinoco [Hartert). 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



259. Phaethornis longuemareus. 

 Longuemare's Hermit. 



Trocliihts longuemareus Less. Hist. Nat. Trochil. pp. 15, 160, pis. 2, 62, 

 1832 (Cayenne) ; Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 709, 1848. 



Pygmornis longuemareus Queloh, Timehri (2) v. p. 98, 1891 (George- 

 town). 



Pj/gmornis longuemarei Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 283. 1892. 



Phaethornis longuemareus Bra bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 108, 

 no. 1033, 1912. 



Adidt. Back dark bronze-green, as are also the upper wing- 

 coverts ; head darker than the back ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; 

 central tail-feathers bronze-green tipped with white, the outer 

 ones blackish edged and tipped with rufous ; flight-quills uniform 

 browm ; superciliary line and under surface rufous ; chin and 

 a line behind the eye blackish; under tail-coverts whitish. 



Total length 101 mm., culmen 24. wing 44, tail 40. 



