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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Fig. 49. — Sittasomus syJvielhts. 



425. Sittasomus amazonus. 

 Amazonian Olive Creeper. 



Sittasomvs amazomis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 18-50, p. 590 (haut Araazone) ; 



Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 249, no. 2530, 1912. 

 Siftasonws olivaceus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 (Camacusa, Merume 



Mts., Koraima, 3500 ft.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 119, 



1890 (Roraima, Memme Mts.), 



Adult male. Crown o£ head, nape, npper back, upper wing- 

 coverts, sides of face, throat, breast, abdomen, and sides of body 

 dusky olive-brown ; outer aspect of wings rufous, inner webs of 

 flight-quills dark brown with cinnamon-rufous on the basal 

 portion ; lower back, rum|tj upper and undur wing-coverts, and 



