sicALis. 457 



638. Sicalis roraimae. 



RORAIMA GeoDND-FiNCH. 



Sycalis citrina (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 217 (Merume Mts., 



Roraima, 2700-3700 £t.)- 

 Pseudocldoris citrina (uec Pelz.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 778, 



1888 (Merume Mts., Eoraima). 

 I*seudochlo)-is hroicni (nee Bangs) Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 380, no. 3911, 1912. 

 PseiidocJtloris roraiincB Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. x.) p. 194, 



Feb. 1, 1921. 



Adult male. Crown of head dark citron-yellow, with no indi- 

 cation of dark shaft-lines to the £eather.s ; wings and back 

 blackish brown with olive-grey margins to the feathers ; rump 

 and npper tail-coverts dark olive-green ; tail blackish brown 

 fringed with olive-green ; the two outer feathers on each side 

 white on the inner webs at the tips ; sides of face tawny yellow ; 

 throat, breast, and abdomen dull yellow, darker on the sides of 

 the body and paler on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 buff; under surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of 

 tail similar to its upper surface but paler brown. 



Total length 116 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 63, tail 44, 

 tarsus 14.' 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being blackish on 

 the upper surface with paler fringes to the feathers ; throat, 

 breast, and sides of body lawn-brown with dark shaft-lines to tiie 

 feathers, becoming whitish yellow on the lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts. Wing 58 mm. 



This species -was quoted by Brabourne and Chubb in their ' List 

 of the Birds of South America,' as Pseudochloris hroioni (Bangs). 

 It differs from that species, however, in its smaller size and much 

 duller coloration. There is a series of twelve specimens in the 

 British Museum all of which are (juite constant in character. 



Jh'eeding-season. Unknown. 



I^est. Unrecorded. 



Kays. Unde.scribed. 



Range conjhitd to British Guiana. Mount Roraima ( Whitely). 



Ilaiils. Unrecorded. 



