AUTOMOLUS. 105 



Total length 174 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 87, tail 76, 

 tarsus 24. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but slightly smaller. 

 Wing 79 mm. 



The male described was collected by Mr. McConnell during his 

 journey to Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to Bv'itisli Guiana. Mount Roraima (^AlcConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima {M'hitelg). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



418. Automolus cervicalis. 



Olive-capped Automolus. 



Automolus sclateri (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 420 (Bartica Grove, 



Camacusa); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 95, 1890 (Camacusa, 



Bartica Grove — ^specimens y, Jc, I, m). 

 Philydor cervicalis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 33 (Camacusa and Bartica 



Grove) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 101, 1890. 

 Aictomolus cervicalis Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 241 



no. 2448, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, upper wipg-coverts, and outer aspect 

 of primary and secondary (juills olive-brown; inner webs of the 

 flight-quills dark brown with buff margins ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts dark rufous-chestnut ; tbe tail similar but somewhat 

 paler ; fore part of the head rather paler than the hinder crown 

 with pale sbaft-streaks like tbe ear-coverts and feathers below the 

 eye ; loral space and feathers in front of the eye whitish at tlie 

 base, with blacic hair-like ti[)S to the featliers ; chin and tin oat 

 dull white with a yellowish tinge ; breast, side§ of tbe body, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts dusky l>ro\vn, paler and inclining 

 to grey on the middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts 

 cinn imon-rufons, inner edges of the (juills below similar but rather 

 paler, remainder of the under surface of the quills pah? brown ; 

 lower asj)ect of the tail rufous. 



Total length 159 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 85, tail G(j, 

 tarsus 20. 



The nude descriljed was collected on tlie Ituribisi River in 

 1909. 



