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471. Tyranniscus gracilipes. 



Slexder-footed Flycatcher. 



Ti/ran7iisci(s qrncUipes Sclater & Salvin. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 981 (Pebas, 

 E. Peru)"; Salvin, Il^is, 1885, p. 291 (Roraima, 3500 to 5000 ft.) ; 

 Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 183, pi. xi. fig. 2, 188S 

 (Koraima) ; Brabourne & Clivibb, B. S. Ainer. i. p. 288, no. 2931, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Back olive-ti"reen ; head dark shite-colour ; wings 

 dark brown or blackish with yellowish-white margins to the outer 

 webs of the median and greater upper wing-coverts and outer 

 edges ot" the innermost secondaries ; inner margins of flight-quills 

 whitish ; tail pale brown, the feathers slightly edged with olive- 

 green ; the short feathers round the eye greyish white ; cheeks, 

 breast, and sides of the body greenish yellow, inclining to white 

 on the chin ; abdomen and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts pale sulphur-yellow, inner edges 

 of the quills below white, remainder of the quill-lining brown ; 

 lower aspect of tail greyish brown. 



Total length 101 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 50, tail 44, 

 tarsus 17. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, 

 and the male from which the description is taken is in the 

 British Museum and was collected at Mount Roraima by the late 

 Henry Whitely on June 29, 1883 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breediruj-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



I^[igs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Hanc/e in JJrilish Guiana. Mount lioraiina ( Whitelif). 



Extralimital Ramje. Cayenne [Brit. Mus.), Venezuela, Central 

 and Eastern P(;ru, Bolivia. 



Ilabils. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



472. Tyranniscus acer. 

 Guiana Flycatcher. 



Tyranniscus rrccr Salvin & Godnian, Ibis, 1883, p. 200 (Bartica Tirovc) ; 

 Salvin, op. cit. 1885, p. 291 (Caniacusa, J'loraiuia 35U0 ft.) ; 

 Silattr, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 133, LSSS (IJartica (Jrove, 

 Cainac'usa. J^)rMilllaj; Jh-Jibounie & Chubb, H. S. Aiuor. i. ]>. 2NS, 

 iH). 2935, 1!J12; BLcl>e, Tropical Wild Life in Briti^^h Guiana, 

 J). 221, 1917. 



Adult mule, (lencial colour above green ; licad slato-gi'ey ; 



