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with buffy-white ; upper tail-coverts narrowly edged with 

 chestnut, tail-feathers also fringed with the same colour ; crown 

 of head black, with a large yellow coronal patch in the middle ; a 

 whitish line running from the base of the forehead over the eye 

 along the side of the crown and meeting on the nape; a spot in 

 front of the eye and ear-coverts black or blackish brown ; cheeks 

 and throat whitish inclining to pale lemon-bellow on the binder 

 face ; a dark moustachi;il streak on each side of the throat which 

 joins the dark brown on the breast, the feathers on the latter being 

 margined with pale lemon-yellow — the margins increasing in 

 width on the lower breast and sides of the body — the dark pattern 

 of the feathers lanceolate in form ; abdomen paler and inclining 

 to whitei; under tail-coverts yellow with dark spear-head markings 

 on the centre of the feathers ; axillaries and under wing-covei'ts 

 sul})hur-yellow ; under surface of quills dark brown with rufous 

 inner edges ; lower aspect of tail brown with very narrow 

 rufous edgings to the feathers. 



Total length 146 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 77, tail 57, 

 tarsus 17. 



The exact locality in British Guiana of the male described is 

 not ;;iven. 



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

 AVing 71 mm. 



Tlie female described was collected on the Ituribisi Kiver in 

 August 1909. 



The young bird in its first plumage can always be recognised 

 by the rufous margins to the feathers. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



I\^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Krigs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



J^ange in British Guiayia. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River. 

 Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Great Falls Don e- 

 rara River, Arawui River [McConnell collection); Bartica, 

 Kamakusa ( W lately). 



Extraliinital Range. Cayenne. 



Ilahits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 701) that ho 

 found this bird rather common n(;ar the const, and tiial its haljits 

 and mode of life are similar to ihosc of M'/iohins I'ly/hrnnis 

 (V'-. p. 21.SJ. 



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