432 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



The female described was collected on the Supenaam River 

 in 1910. 



There do not appear to be any young birds of this species in 

 the McConnell collection, but there is a s{)ecimen in the British 

 Museum, collected by the late Dr. A. R. Wallace on the island of 

 Mexiana, which is sexed by him as male, but the plumage is very 

 similar to that of the adult female. 



Breeding-season. November {Schomhurgk). 



Nest. The nest is made of mosses, lined with plant-wool, and 

 placed in thickly-foliaged Ijushes (^Scliomhurgk), 



J^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Mange in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Abary River, Anarika River (^McConnell 

 coUectio7i). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam {Penard), Tobago, North-eastern 

 Brazil. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. G78) this 

 species is more commonly met with on the outskirts of woods and 

 plantations near the coast than inland. It is usually met with 

 in pairs, though solitary individuals are observed amongst roaming 

 flocks. The nest is made of mosses, lined with plant-wool and 

 })Iaced in thickly-folinged bushes. The nest was found iu 

 November. 



623. SporopMla bouvronides. 



Lesson's Seed-eater. 



Pyrrliida houvronides Less. Traite d'Orn, p. 450, 1831 (Trinidad). 

 Sjjermojjhila ocellata Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 131, 1888 



(Cariuiang). 

 S^yorojiliila houvronides Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 367, 



no. 3770, 1912 ; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 136, 



1917 (Bartica). « 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface deep bluish 

 black including the crown of the head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, 

 wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail ; the ilight-quills white at the 

 base on the inner webs, except on the two outermost primaries, 

 extending to the outer webs of the fourth^ fifth, sixth, and 

 seventh quills which form a wing-speculum^ the feathers on 

 the head, hind-neck, and back have grey bases; rump white ; 

 throat, sides of the neck, and sides of face like the back; cheeks 



