DL'KCAXULA. TlAKlj;, 441 



surface of flight-cjuills and lower aspect of tail dark greyish brown 

 with slightly paler edges to the former. 



Total length 128 mm., exposed cuhnen 10, wing 65, tail 58j 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 by Mr. McDonnell at Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper parts fulvous-brown 

 with broad black shaft-lines to the feathers on the top of the head 

 and back ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish brown, paler on the 

 inner edges ; tail-feathers also blackish brown with fulvous 

 margins to the feathers; sides of face and throat dusky-grey; 

 breast, sides of body, and abdomen rust-brown ; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts ash-grey ; under surface of flight- 

 quills and lower aspect of tail dark brown. Wing 60 mm. 



The female described above was also collected by Mr. McConnell 

 at Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Breedinft-season. Unknown. 



Kest. Unrecorded. 



Ey<js. Undescribed. 



JRaiu/e confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima (AlcConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitel^). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus TIARIS Swains. 



Tiaris Swainson, Zoological Journal, lii. p. 351, 1827. Tvpe T. ornata 

 (Wiedi. 



Fig. 165. — Tiaris phoeoptila. 



This genus is diitinguishod by having I he bill somewhat com- 

 pressed, pointed at the tip, the culmen keeled, nostrils oval and 

 feathered on the posterior portion. The wing is rounded, the 

 second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest, the first about 



