SPOROPHILA. 431 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 J^ggs. Undescribed from J3rit.i?h Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Abary 

 River (^McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima (Wliiteh/). 

 Extralimital Range. Venezuela, Colombia, North-east Brazil. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



&22. Sporopliila americana. 



Gmelin's Seed-eater. 



Loxia americana Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. S63, 1789 (Ca^^enne). 

 Sjwropliila americana Cab. in Schomb. Keis. in Guian. iii. p. 678, 1848 ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 367, no. 3760, 1912. 

 Spermophila coUaria Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 214. 

 Sj)ermophila cucullata Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 116, 1888. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface black includ- 

 ing the top of the head, sides of face, back, wings, and tail ; lesser, 

 median, and greater upper wing-coverts tipped with white ; flight- 

 (■uills white at the base, chiefly on the inner webs, but the fourth 

 to the eighth primaries are marked with white on the outer web 

 which forms a wing-speculum; lower back, rump, and short 

 upper tail-coverts grey, some of the feathers tipped with white, 

 long upper tail-coverts uniform dark grey ; tail uniform black ; 

 throat and a band across the sides of the neck white ; a narrow 

 dark band across the lower throat ; sides of breast black ; middle 

 of breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, and base of quills white pervaded with grey on the sides 

 of th(^ body ; under surface of fligbt-quills and lower aspect of 

 tail l>lackish. 



Total length 114 nun., exposed culmen 9, wing 58, tail 4G, 

 tarsus 16. 



The male from \\ihich the description is taken was collected on 

 the Anarika River. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface (including 

 the top of the head, sides of the face, entire back, wings, and tail) 

 ochrcous-brovvn ; under surface much paler and inclining to 

 yellow on the middle of the abdoujen ; axillaries and uixlor wiiig- 

 coverts white, or bulfy-wliite ; un<lor-suri'ace of fligbt-cjuills jtale 

 hair-brown witii bully-white margins; lower aspect of tail gru^'ish 

 bruwn. Wing 5.') mm. 



