AUTOMOLUS. 105 



Total length 174 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 87, tail 76, 

 tarsus 24. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but slightly smaller. 

 "Wing 79 mm. 



The male described was collected by Mr. McConnell during his 

 journey to Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 

 • Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima (^McConnell 

 collection') • Mount Roraima (^Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



418. Automolus cervicalis. 



Olive-capped Automolus. 



Automolus sclateri (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 420 (BarticaGrrove,. 



Camacusa) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 95, 1890 (Oamacusa, 



Bartica Grove — specimens _;', h, I, ni). 

 JPMlydor cervicalis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 33 (Camacusa and Bartica 



Grove) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 101, 1890. 

 Automolus cervicalis Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 241 



no. 2448, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, upper wing-coverts, and outer aspect 

 of primary and secondary quills oliYC-brown ; inner webs of the 

 flight-quills dark brown with bufE margins ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts dark rufous-chestnut ; the tail similar but somewhat 

 paler ; fore part of the head rather paler than the hinder crown 

 with pale sbaft-streaks like the ear-coverts and feathers below the 

 eye ; loral space and feathers in front of the eye whitish at the 

 base, with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; chin and throat 

 dull white with a yellowish tinge ; breast, sides of the body, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts dusky brown, paler and inclining 

 to grey on the middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts 

 cinn.imon-rufous, inner edges of the quills below similar but rather 

 paler, remainder of the under surface of the quills pale brown ; 

 lower aspect of the tail rufous. 



Total length 159 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 85, tail 66, 

 tarsus 20. 



The male described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 1909. 



