BroRoriiTLA'. 4H3 



white ; the feathers on the breast and sides of the body are 

 marked with black and white — some having ovate white tips 

 which impart a dappled appearance; abdomen, lower flanks, 

 under tail-coverts, axillaries, under win ^-coverts, and base of 

 quill-lining white ; remainder of" the under surface of tlie quills 

 and lower aspect of tail blackish. 



Total length 114 mm., exposed culmen 7. wing 55, tail 15, 

 tarsus 15. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Supenaam River in liHl. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface ochreous 

 brown ; throat, fore-neck, and sides of body fawn-colour ; middle 

 of abdomen yellowish ; thighs and under tail-coverts pale buff ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts buflPy-white ; under surface of 

 flight-quills hair-brown; lower aspect of tail similar but rather 

 paler. Wing 55 mm. 



The female of this species is not represented in the Mc(^onnell 

 collection, neither is there a female specimen, from British 

 Guiana, in the National collection. The specimen described was 

 collected at Merida, Venezuela, by A. Goering, and is now in 

 the British Museum, Sclater collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Takutu Mountains, Supenaam River 

 {McConnell collection^ x Kamarang River ( Whitely). 



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

 Colombia, Peru, Nortli-eastern Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British (iiiiana. 



G21. SporopMla lineola. 

 Lined Seed-eati:i{. 



Loxia lineola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. j). 171, 175S ((Juiana). 



Spermophila lim-ola Salvin, Ibis, 18S.'3, p. 211 (MtrmiiO Mts., Caniaciisn, 



Koi-ainia, lioOO ft.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. iirit. Mus. xii. ]). 1;J1. 188S 



(Merume Mts., Caniacusa, Caramang Kiver) ; (.^^lelfli, Tiuit'hri (2) 



v. p. 84, 1891 ((jeorgL'tdwn). 

 f'ipornphila hneola Iirdl»f)urne & Chubb, B. S. Anicr. i. p. ;}07, no. 37G9, 



11)12; Jk-ebe. Trojiicai Wild Life in Hritisli (iuiana, j.. 130, 1917 



(Bartica). 



AJiill male. Lurfs, si(h's of crown, jiinih'r facd^ liind-neok, 

 Vol.. II. L' 1 



