376 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



culmen by about one-third, and the middle toe and claw are about 

 equal in length to the tarsus. Coloration : male and female 

 diiferent. 



578. Platycichla venezuelensis. 

 Venezuelan Grey Ouzel. 



Merula carhonaria (nee Licht.) Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 253, 



1881. 

 TurdvR favipes (nee Vieill.) Salvin, Ibis, 188o, p. 198 (Roraima, 



3.30(J-60O0ft.). 

 Platycichla venezuelensis Sharpe in Seebohm"s Monogr. Turdidae, ii. 



p. 83, 1900 ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p.' 342, no. 3501, 



1912. 



Adult male. Head, neck all round, mantle, wing?, and tail black 

 like the throat, breast, thighs, and under wing-coverts ; back, 

 scapulars, marginal upper wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts, sides o£ 

 the body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts dark slate-grey. 



Total length 224 mm., exposed culmen 17, wing 109, tail 88, 

 tarsus 26, middle toe and claw 25. 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, including the 

 top of the head, sides of the face, entire back, outer aspect of 

 wings, and tail, with a tinge of grey on the wings and upper tail- 

 eoverts ; throat, breast, sides of body, and under tail-coverts 

 ochreous-brown, with dark shaft-streaks to the feathers on the 

 throat and inclining to slate-grey on the abdomen ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries orange-butf. Wing 115 nnn. 



This speqies is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the specimens described are in the British Museum and were 

 collected at J\Jount Roraima, 3500 ft., by Henry Whitely in 

 January 1884 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima ( B'/ijV^/^). 



Extralimital Range. \'enezuela, Trinidad. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



