TODIROr^TRUM, 155 



ToiUrostrnm cinereum Salvin, Ibis, 18S5, p. 292 (Bartica Grove, 



Merume Mts., Eoraima 3500 £t.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 69, 1888 (Bartica Grove, Eoraima) ; Qiielch, Timehri (2) v. 



p. 91, 1891 (Georgetown) ; Llojd, op. cit. xi. p. 4 (nests and eggs) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 272, no. 2773, 1912. 

 Todirostnim cinereum cinereum Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



p. 131, 1910 (Georgetown). 



" Pipitoorie" (QtielcJi). 



Adult male. Entire crown of head, sides of face, and hind-neck 

 Llack ; back dark slate-grey ; npper wing-coverts black edged 

 with yellowish-white ; primary and secondary quills also black 

 edged on the outer webs with yellow and on the inner ones with 

 buffy-white ; tail black both above and below, the two outer 

 feathers tipped and the outermost edged with white on the 

 outer web ; lower cheeks and entire under surface bright yellow, 

 ratlier paler and inclining to whitish on the chin ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts very pale yellow; under surface of quills 

 l)ro\vn with pale inner edges. "Bill and feet black" (Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 96 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 46, tail 33, 

 tarsus 21. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Bonasika River in 1912. 



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

 Wing 40 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Long and purse-like {C. A. Lloyd). 



Eggs. Small in size, two in number, and white in colour 

 {C. A. Lloyd). 



liange in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Supenaam River, Bonasika River, Mazaruni River, 

 Anarica River, Arawai River (McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Linne), Trinidad, Venezuela,. 

 (*olombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil. 



LJabits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii.p. 702) this 

 species is distributed throughout the Colony, and is most 

 commonly deserved on the Cecropia trees. 



]\Ir. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 91) gives the following 

 note in reference to this species at Georgetown : — " Among tho 

 largo trees with dense foliage, as well as tho flowering shrubs 

 whicii the little Flower-pockers {(.'erthiola) fro(juent, will also 



