380 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. * 



Kqgs. Undescribod from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraiina, Merume Mountains, 

 Kamarang River ( Whiietf/}. 



Extralimital Range. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



581. Planesticus roraimse. 

 RoRAiMA Ouzel. 



Turdus roraimoe Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 443 (Roraima, 5000- 



GOOO ft.) ; Salvin, op. cit. 1885, p. 198. 

 Merula roraimas Sharpe, Hand-List of Birds, iv. p. 120, 1903. 

 Planesticus roraimce Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 344, 



no. 3513, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, and throat black ; 

 entire back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-covert.s 

 dark olive-brown ; fliolit-quills and tail-feathers dark smoke- 

 brown ; breast, abdomen, sides of the body, thighs, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts ochreous-brown, paler and incling to buff" on 

 the middle of the abdomen ; under tail-coverts dark olive-brown 

 with pale tips to the feathers. 



Total length 240 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 124, tail 95, 

 tarsus 34. 



The above description is taken from the type in the British 

 Museum, which was collected by Whitely on Mount Roraima, 

 GOOO ft., August 22^ 1883 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Adult female. Entire back, from the lower hind-neck* and in- 

 cluding the upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts 

 dusky olive-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, flight-quills, 

 and tail-feathers dark smoke-brown, more or less olive on the 

 outer aspect of the w-ing and margins ol: the tail-feathers ; heud 

 and sides of the face deep black, with long lilo-plumes to the 

 feathers on the nape ; throat, fore-neck, sides of neck, and upper 

 breast dusky olive-brown, with longitudinal black streaks on 

 the throat ; breast, abdomen, and sides of the body buff, tinged 

 with olive like the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; under tail- 

 coverts dusky-brown more or less intermixed with buff"; under 

 surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail dark brown. 



Total length 235 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 122, tail 96, 

 tarsus 31. 



