100 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



454. MicrococMearius josepliinEe. 



Josephine's Tody-Tyrant. 



(Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Eiiscarfhmns josepliince Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxiii. p. 132, 

 May 28, 1914. 



Adult [type of the species). General colour of the upper surface 

 olive-green including the head, back, wings, and tail ; inner Avebs 

 of flight-quills brown with pale inner margins ; lores whitish at 

 the base ; ear-coverts pale brown ; throat and entire under surface 

 lemon-yellow suffused with dusky grey on the throat where the 

 yellow is very pale, becoming deep ochraceous-yellow on the breast, 

 sides of the body, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts rather paler yellow than the abdomen ; under surface of 

 quills brown with pale inner edges; lower aspect of tail brown 

 with white shafts to the feathers. 



Total length 109 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 55, tail 44, 

 tarsus 20. 



The type was collected on the Supenaam River in 1910. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Egqs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Supenaam River (^McConnell 

 collection) . 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus PERISSOTRICCUS Oberh. 



Ferissofriccus Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Xat. Mus. xxv. ]\ G4, 1892. Type 

 P. ecaudatus (d'Orb & Lafr.). 



Fig. 65. — Ferissofriccus ecaudatus. 

 The species included in this genus are conspicuous by their 



