HEKPSILOCHMUS. 39' 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 

 Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 l^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Supenaam River, Great Falls Deme- 

 rara River {McConnell collection); Kamakusa, Bartica {Whitely). 

 Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard). 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



373. Herpsiloclimus roraimse. 



RORAIMA AnT-BIED. 



SerpsilocTimus sp. inc., Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 425 (Eoraima, 3500 ft.). 

 Serpsilochmus dorsomaculatus (^nec Pelz.) Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. 



p. 246, 1890 (Twek-quay). 

 Serpsilochmus roraimce Hellmajr, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, liii. 



p. 208, 1903 (Mt. Koraima) \ Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 200, no. 2002, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head black ; back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts lead-grey, some of the feathers on the middle of the back 

 white at the base, with black on the apical portion ; upper wing- 

 coverts black broadly tipped with white ; flight-quills blackish, 

 edged with white on the outer and inner webs, more broadly on 

 the latter ; tail black tipped with white, the outer feathers marked 

 with white on both webs ; lores and a broad line over the eye 

 extending along the sides of the crown white, followed by a line 

 of black from behind the eye ; a dark spot in front of the eye ; 

 sides of face and throat greyish white ; breast and sides of body 

 ash-grey ; middle of abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under 

 wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below white ; under 

 surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail black, 

 tipped and extensively marked with white on the outer feathers. 



Total length 123 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 54, tail 50, 

 tarsus 20. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being paler grey 

 on the back, the feathers on the crown of the head black tipped 

 with white, and the breast isabelline. Wing 54 mm. 



This species is unrepresented in the McOonnell collection, and 

 the male and female described above, which are in the British 

 Museum, were collected at Mount Roraima by the late Henry 

 Whitelyin January 1882 and in 1884 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



