EL.'EXEA. 187 



Adult male. Plind-neck, liack, lesser upper wing-coverts, and 

 upper tail-coverts dusky olive-brown ; bastard-wino; and primary- 

 coverts brown like the median and si'P^^ter wino-coverts and 

 flioht-quills, the median and greater series of coverts broadly 

 margined with dull white, as aie also the outer edges of the inner 

 secondaries; outer margins of primar3'-quills yellow; tail pale 

 brown ; crown of head, which is crested, similar in colour to the 

 back with 3-ellowish-white bases to the feathers ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of neck similar to the back ; lores, feathers encircling the 

 eye, and throat greyish white; breast and sides of body yellowish 

 oiive-brown ; middle of abdomen, vent, under tail-coverts, axil- 

 laries, and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow like the inner 

 margins of the quills below, remainder of quill-lining pale brown, 

 as is also the under surface of the tail. 



Total length 155 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 78, tail C8, 

 tarsus 20. 



The male described was collected on the Supenaam River. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male in general plumage, but 

 differs in the much less pronounced white coronal patch. AVing 

 78 mm. 



The female described was collected at Bartica in 1911. 



Breeding- season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in Briti>h Guiana. 



J'^[ff/s. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Ihntqe ill British Giiiana. Mount Itoraima, Upjier Takutu 

 IMountains, Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, Bartica, l^onasika 

 liiver, A bury River (McCo)inell collection) ; Mount Roraima, 

 Bartica {Wliitelif); Georgetown {Quelc/t, Beehe). 



B.vtralimital Jlange. Tobago, Trinidad, V^enezuela. 



Habits. Ajcoiding to Schond)ui'gk (Heis. Guian. iii. p. 701), 

 tliis bird is usual!}' observed in flocks frequenting the onf skirls of 

 woods, and the gardens of the iuiti\es, where it liies from tree to 

 tree in s(>arch of insects. 



474. Elsenea pag"ana olivina. 

 Guiana Gukstku Flycatcheu. 



JElatnra (dirinn Salvin & (Jodnian, Tliis, ISSI, p. 410 (]\(iraiiii:i) ; 



Salviii, jhis, bSSo, p. UJ)4 (Caniacusa, Korainia, .'jOOO-UDOO ft.) ; 



SclatcT, Cat. \^. I'.rit. Mus. xiv. p. 14<), pi. xii. ISSS ( Koraiiiia). 

 FJiinia idirina iJraliuunit.' & Chul)li, J5. S. Amer. i. p. liSO. no. 2!)oli, 1U12. 



