392 BIRDS OF BRITISH (JUIANA. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Gniuna. 



Eygs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Iturihisi River, Bartica [McConneU 

 collection) : Bartica, Kaniaknsa ( WJtitfli/). 



Extralimital Uange. Brazil, Venezuela, Paiuuna, Janiaiea, 

 S. Douiingo, Lesser Antilles. 



Habits. Unrecorded in lU-itish Guiana. 



593. Vireo olivaceus. 

 Red-eyed Greenlet. 



Mtiscicapa olivacea Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 327, 17G6 (Carolina). 

 Vireo olivaceus Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 294. 1883- ; 

 Brubourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 348, no. 3oG3, 1912. 



Adult. Crown of liead and nape slate-orey with a dark lirowu 

 Hue on each side of the crown followed by a parallel line of buffy- 

 white from the lores over the eye and extending along to the sides 

 of the nape; a dually spot in front and behind the eye ; back, 

 rump, upper tail-covorts, scapulars, wings, and tail green ; inner 

 webs of bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark brown ; inner 

 webs of flight-quills also dark bi-own with white margins ; tail- 

 feathers buffy-white on the inner margins; sides of face, sides of 

 neck, and sides of body paler than the back : throat, breast, 

 audomen, and under tail-coverts white wifh a slight yellowish 

 tinge, which is much more pronounced on the under tail-coverts; 

 axillaries and under wing- coverts lemon-yellow ; under surface 

 of quills hair-brow'.i with yellowish-white margins ; lower aspect of 

 tail similar, but paler. 



Total length 139 mm., exposed culmen 13, wing 82, tail 55, 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 February 1907. 



The sexes a]i|)ear to be similar both in colour of plumage and 

 measurements. 



Breediny-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eqqs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Ranae in BritisJi Guiana. Ituribisi River (McConneU col- 

 ection). 



