riPROMORPHA. — LEFTOrOGON. 173 



Total length IIG mm., exposed culmen 12, wing C2, tail 45, 

 tarsus IG. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the above description is taken i'roin the type, which is in the 

 British Museum. 



iBreeding-season. Unknown. 



KeS't. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima and Merume 

 Mountains ( Whifeli/). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus LEPTOPOGON Cab. 



Lepfopogon Cabanis, Arch. £iir Naturg. lS-11, pt. i. p. 275. Tyjie 

 i. superciUaris Cab. 



Fig. 72. — Lepfopogon superciliaris. 



In this genus the bill is compressed, the width at the hinder 

 portion of the nostrils being about one-third the length of the 

 exposed culmen, the tip of the upper mandible is hooked and 

 tlio rictal bristles are well d(»veloped. The wing is rounded, the 

 third and fourth primaries longest, the second is about equal to 

 the sixth and the first about three-fourths the length of the 

 second ; there is an indication of a small spine on the under 

 surface at the base of the first primary. The tail is square at the 

 tip and about five-sixths the length of the wing, and the tarsus is 

 aljout one-fifth longer than the exposed culmen. (Joloratiou : 

 male and female similar. 



40 1. Leptopogon amaurocephalus. 



SciioMFii ii(;K's Flycatchkk. 



Lrptopogo)! (tindiii'nv.cphnlns Cabanis, Aroli. fiir Naturj;. 1S17, i. p. 2.">l 

 (Ijnizil); Sulviii, Ibis, ISho, p. 21)3 (Mcrunu' Mis., llimuiiia 



