sroROPHiLA. 429 



Adult female. Differs £rom the adult male in being olive-broAvn 

 on the upper parts and dark fawn-colour on the under surface ; 

 the under wing-coverts are white, and the white wing-s})eculuin 

 absent. Wing 57 mm. 



The specimen described above is in the British Museum. 



Sreeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. * 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains {McConnell 

 collection). 



E.vtraliniital Range. Surinam (Penard), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



620. Sporophila longipennis. 



Long-winged Seed-eater. 



Sporoj^liila longijyennis Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. ix.) 



p. 193, Feb. 1, 1921 (lioraima, 3500 ft.). 

 Sj)ermophila grisea (nee Gmel.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 215 (Roraima, 



3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 96 part, 1888 (Koraima). 

 Sporophila grisea (nee Gmel.) Braboui'ne & Chubb, B, S. Amer. i. p. 364, 



no. 3735 part, 1912. 



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

 grey, darker and inclining to blackish on the fore-part of the 

 head ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish brown, becoming paler 

 on the inner margins, the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries white 

 at the base, which forms a wing-speculum ; tail dusky-brown ; 

 sides of face, throat, sides of bod}--, and thighs slate-grey but 

 paler than the back ; middle of breast, middle of abdomen, and 

 under wing-coverts dull white; outer under wing-coverts dark 

 brown ; axiilaries, inner under wing-coverts, and base of quills 

 below white, remainder of quill-lining greyish brown ; lower 

 aspect of tail also greyish brown with wliitc shafts to the 

 feathers. 



Total length 107 mm., exposed culmon 10, wing 05, tail 42, 

 tarsu.s 15, middle toe and claw KJ. 



The female is unknown. 



This species is not represented in the McCJonnell collection, and 

 the description is taken from the ty})e, which is in the IJriiish 

 Museum, and was collected by the lati; llenr}' Whitely at IMuuut 



