TYRAXNUS. 235 



Ti/rannus safrajx/ Erabounie A: Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 304, no. 310-i, 

 1912. 



"Kiskadie" (()w?cA). 



Adult male. Head and sides of face ash-crrey ; a large concealed 

 patch of orange-red on the top of the head ; back, scapulars, and 

 lesser upper M'ing-coverts olive-green ; bastard-wing nnifoim 

 dark brown ; median and greater upper wing-coverts brown^ 

 edged with olive-green like the primaiy-coverts ; flight-quills 

 dark brown, slightly edged on the primaries and more broadly on 

 the secondaries with olive-green, the inner webs margined with 

 yellowish white; upper tail-coverts and tail dark brown, with 

 olive-green fringes to the former and pale edges to the latter ; 

 cheeks and throat pale ash-grey ; breast greenish yellow ; abdo- 

 men and sides of body bright yellow ; under tail-coverts, axillaries,. 

 and under wing-coverts lemon-yellow ; marginal under wing- 

 coverts and under surface of flight-quills pale brown with sulphur- 

 yellow margins to the feathe-rs ; lower aspect of tail uniform 

 brown. 



Total length 200 mm., exposed culmen 25, wing 113, tail 91, 

 tarsus 19. 



The description is taken from a male collected at Bartica 

 in 1911. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in coloration but slightly 

 smaller in measurements. Wing 110 mm. 



The young bird differs from the adult in the absence, of the 

 concealed orange-red patch on the crown of the head, which is 

 represented by lemon-yellow, in having the upper wing-coverts, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers fringed with rufous, and the 

 throat and fore-neck v\hi(e. 



The young bird described above was collected on the Ituribisi 

 River in 19u9. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British G!nana. 



Nest. A snuill round nest made of dry sticks, lined witli grass, 

 and generally placed in the up{)or branches of low tvee^i {II. Llof/d 

 Frice). 



Jujas. Three in numljer ; white spotted with red-brown and 

 grey (//. Lloyd Price). 



liavfie in British (juiana. Mount Horaima, Upjier Takutu 

 Mountains, Ituriljisi liiver, Supenaam Kiver, liartica, Abary 

 l(i\cr, Tiger ('reidc {Mc('onnell collection); ]\luunt lioraimay 



