414 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



609. Myioborus pallidiventris. 

 Chapman's Redstart. 



Setophaga verticalis (nee Lafr. & d'Orb.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 303 



(lioraima, 8500-5000 ft.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 420, 



1885 (Roraima, August). 

 Setophaga verticalis pallidiventris Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist. xii. p. 153, 1899 (Quebrada Seea, Venezuela). 

 Myioborus pallidiveniris Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 357, 



no. 3650, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface dark slate- 

 colour including the sides of the neck, hind-neck, back, upper 

 wing-coverts, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts ; middle of the 

 crown deep chestnut ; fore part of head and sides of the crown 

 blackish, tinged with dark slate-colour ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and flight-quills blackish with pale inner margins to the 

 last ; middle tail-feathers blackish, the outer ones for the most 

 part white ; cheeks and throat dull black ; fore-neck orange ; 

 breast, abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts yellow ; 

 axillaries and under wiug-coverts white slightly tinged with 

 yellow ; under surface of flight-quills dark brown ; losver aspect 

 of tail blackish on the middle feathers and white on the outer 

 ones. 



Total length 127 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 63, tail 61, 

 tarsus 17. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but slightly smaller. 

 Wing 56 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the specimens from which the descriptions are taken were 

 collected by the late Henry Whitely, the male at Mount Roraima 

 and the female on the Kamarang River, now in the British 

 Museum, Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kijgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima ( Whitelij). 



Extralimital Range. Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



