208 BIRDS or BlUTISH GUIANA. 



486. Myiodynastes solitarius duncani. 

 Duncan's Solitary Flycatcher. 



Myiodi/nasfes solitarius (nee Vieill.) Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 18o, 18S8 (Bartica Grove) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Aiuer. i. 



p. 394, no. 3004, 1912, 

 Mijiodynastes mnculcdiis solitarius (nee Vieill.) Beebe. Trop. Wild Life, 



p. 134, 1917. 

 Myiodynastes solitarius duncani Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xl. 



p. 62, Dec. 31, 1919. 



Adult male. General colour above blackish with white or 

 rufous margins to the feathers which imparts a more or less 

 streaked appearance ; a large coronal patch composed of yellow 

 and white feathers and tipped with black ; a line of white feathers 

 with dark shaft-streaks from the base of the forehead over the 

 eye and along the sides of the crown ; lores and feathers in front 

 of the eye black and bristly in texture ; ear-coverts black ; cheeks 

 white followed by a rather broad moustachial streak of black; hind- 

 neck, back, scapulars, and innermost secondaries black with white 

 margins to the feathers and slate-grey bases to the feathers on the 

 back ; upper wing-coverts blackish edged with rufous, some of 

 the median and greater series margined with white ; flight-quills 

 also blackish edged with rufous on the outer webs and with white 

 on the inner ones ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dark brown 

 margined with rufous ; throat and entire under surface yellowish 

 white, including the axillaries and under wing-coverts, with broad 

 black shaft-streaks to the feathers; under surface of quills brown 

 with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of tail brown with rufous 

 edgings to the feathers. 



Total length 196 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 111, tail 79, 

 tarsus 19. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Supenaam River in 1913. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



jVest. Unrecorded. 



J'Jggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, 

 Arawai River, Supenaam River {McConnell collection); Bartica 

 ( Wliitehj). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



This subspecies is named in honour of Mrs. F. V. McConnell's 

 second surviving son. 



