MTIOBORUS. 415 



610. Myioborus castaneicapillus. 



Schomburgk's Redstart. 

 (Plate VI. fig. 1.) 



Setophaga castaneicapilla Cabanis in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 667, 



1S48 (British Guiana); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 429, 



1885 (Roraima). 

 Setojjhaga castaneocapilla Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 203 (Roraima, 5000 to 



6000 ft.). 

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



no. 3659, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head chestnut ; hind-neck, sides of neck, 

 and sides of breast, entire back, and wings dusky-brown ; middle 

 tail-feathers blackish, the three outer feathers on each side tipped 

 with white, which increases in extent towards the outermost, 

 where it occupies the entire outer web ; base of forehead dusky- 

 brown ; sides of the face and ear-coverts rather paler brown ; 

 throat and fore-neck inclining to orange-yellow ; abdomen and 

 sides of body bright yellow ; under tail-coverts white ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts dusky more or less tipped with white ; 

 under surface of ilight-quills blackish brown ; lower aspect of tail 

 also blackish brown, the outer feathers extensively marked with 

 white. 



Total length 135 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 62, tail G2, 

 tarsus 20. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. ATing 61 mm. 



The male described was collected at Mount Roraima by 

 Mr. McConnell during his expedition in October li>98. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Un described. 



Range conjined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima [McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima and Kamarang River ( Whiteli/). 



Ilalnts. Schonibiirgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 667) that he only 

 met with this species once wiiich was in the dense woods of Mount 

 Roraima at an altitude of 7000 feet. Its habits appear to be the 

 same as those of No. ^ = Setophaga ruticilla. 



The " Arekuna.s " call it Pairiha. 



