EL^NEA. 189 



olive-brown; coronal patch, which is more or less obscured, 

 cinnamon-rufous ; median and greater upper wing-coverts soot- 

 black with pale greyish tips to the feathers, which form an 

 irregular doul)le wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 flight-quills also soot-black, with pale edges to some of the outer 

 webs of the last and white margins to the inner ones ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown becoming paler at the tips ; chin, throat, and remainder 

 of under surface dusky grey intermixed with sulphur-yellow, 

 which is much increased on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow ; 

 under surface of flight-quills dark brown with pale margins ; 

 lower aspect of tail hair-brown with white shafts to the 

 feathers. " Bill brown, paler at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 feet black" (Whitel>/). 



Total length 141 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 72, tail 64, 

 tarsus 21. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected by 

 Mr. McConnell at Mount Roraima during his expedition in 

 October 1898. 



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

 Wing Q^ mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eg<js. Un described from British Guiana. 



Range in Bntish Guiana. Mount Roraima {Mc Connell collection) ; 

 Merume Mountains (Wlnteli/). 



J^xtraliniital Range. Brazil. 



476. Eleenea cristata whitelyi. 

 Whitely's Crested Flycatcher. 



Elainra aJhiceps (nee d'Orb. & Lafr.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 



(Roraiuia, Mei-ume Mts.); Sclatev, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. Ill 



(part) 1888 (Merume Mts. and Koraiiua). 

 El(B7iia cristata Bra bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 289, no. 2941, 



1912. 

 Elcsnia cristata whitfdyi Chubl), Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (ser, 9) 



iv. p. 3U4, Oct. 1919. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface dusky olive- 

 brown including the hind-neck, back, lesser ujiper wing-coverts, 

 and upper tail-coverts ; wings brown, median and greater upper 



