THRIPOBROTUS. 127 



Mts.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 151, 1890; Braboui-ne & 

 Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 254, no. 2591, 1912. . . 



Adult male. Crown of head and sides of face dusky brown with 

 buflfy- white shaft-streaks to the feathers ; back, scapulars, and 

 tipper wing-coverts rufous-brown ; outer aspect of flight-quills, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail dark chestnut, inner webs of 

 flight-quills rufous on the basal portion, hair-brown towards the 

 tips, the first or outer primary entirely of this colour, which 

 decreases in extent towards the innermost secondaries, where it 

 is almost entirely absent ; throat pale buff ; cheeks blackish with 

 bufEy-white margins to the feathers ; breast, abdomen, sides of 

 body ochreous brown with white broad shaft-streaks to the 

 feathers, which are fringed with black ; under tail-coverts similar 

 but inclining to rufous, under wing-coverts and.inner edges of 

 quills orange-rufous. 



Total length 170 mm., exposed culmen 22, wing 87, tail 72, 

 tarsus 16. 



Adult female. Similar to the type described above. Wing 

 83 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection and 

 the descriptions ai-e taken from the type of the species, which is 

 from Cayenne and is in the collection of the British Museum; 

 the female, also in the National Collection, is from the Merum^ 

 Mountains, collected by the late Henry Whitely in June 1881 — 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Merume Mountains {Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



432. Tliripobrotus albolineatus. 



' FULVOUS-THEOATBD WOOD-HEWEE. 



Dendrocolaptes albolineatus Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1846, p. 208 (Colombia). 



Picolaptes albolineatus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 422 (Kukenam, Eoraima, 

 3500 to 5000 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 152, 1890 

 (Eoraima) ; Braboiu-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i, p. 255, no. 2594, 

 1912. 



Adult male: Crown of head and gides of face pale dusky brown 



