MTOSPIZA. BRACHYSPIZA. 461 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Abary River (MeConnell collection) ; Mount Korainia 

 ( Whit el I/). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (^Penard), Venezuela, Brazil, 

 Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus BRACHYSPIZA Ridgw. 

 Bracliyspiza Kidgwaj, Auk, xv. p. 224, 1898. Type B. capensis (Miill.). 



Fig. 174. — Brachyspiza macconneUi. 



The members of this genus are birds of larger size than tlu»se of 

 the previous genus. The bill is proportionately long and pointed, 

 its depth and Avidth at the base are equal to about hall: the 

 length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and equal and the first 

 about equal in length to the seventh. The tail is square at the 

 tip and about five-sixths the length of the wing, Ihe tarsus is 

 about twice the length of the exjjosed culmen and the middle toe 

 and claw nearly equal in length to tarsus. Coloration : male and 

 female similar. 



641. Bracliyspiza macconneUi. 



McCoNNELL's iSoNG-SPARUOAV. 



Zonoirichia matuiinn (nee Licht.) Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. 



p. ()7'.), 1848 (Korainia). 

 Zonolrichia pileula Sulvin, Ibis, CSSr), ]>. 210 (^K-rinue Mts., b'orainia) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. lirit Mus. xii. ]). lilO, 1888 (Koniinia, Mcruiue Mts.). 

 Bracliyspiza macconneUi Siiarpt-, Trans. Linn. Sue, (2) Zuol. \iii.p. 5.'J, 



pi. iv. fig. 1, inoO (Mount K(»rainia) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 



Amer. \. y. :}7S, no. :3Ssa, 1!)12. 



Aduit. Crown of head and .sides (jf lace dusky, as are al.-o 

 tho rump and upjxM- tail-coverts ; sides of crown, hinder face, and 



