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brown with rust-brown edges to tbe upper wing-coverts and 

 flight-quills, inner edges o£ the hitter isabelline ; fore part of the 

 head slightly darker than the back, the feathers on the middle of 

 the crown and nape golden-yellow which forms a more or less 

 concealed patch ; lores, a line over the eye, and biise of ear-coverts 

 yellow, tips of ear-coverts, hinder-face, and moustachial streak 

 dusky brown ; chin and throat leinon-yellow becoming pale 

 umber on the breast and ochreous-yellow on the abdomen, under 

 tail-coverts, sides of body, and under wing-coverts ; under surface 

 of quills brown with pale edges ; lower aspect of tail bronze-brown. 



Total length 85 mm., exposed culnien 9, width of bill 9, wing 53, 

 tail 27, tarsus 17. 



The male described was collected at Mount Roraima by Mr. 

 McOonnell in October 1898. 



Another individual, collected at the same time as the bird 

 described, is very similar in general plumage but there is no 

 coronal patch, and the under surface is rather paler. Wing 53 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima (McConnell collec- 

 tion); Mount fioraima, Mount Twek-quay (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range, Island of Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



443. Placostomus saturatus. 



Guiana Flat-bill. 



(Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Platyrhynchus saturatus Salvia <fc Godman, Ibis, 1882, p. 78 (Merum6 

 Mts.) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 292 (Camacusa) ; Sclater, Cat. E. 

 Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 66, 1888 (Merum6 Mts., Camacusa) ; Brabom'iie 

 & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 270, no. 2747, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above umber-brown somewhat 

 darker and inclining to dusky on the head ; primary-coverts and 

 inner webs of the flight-qnills dark brown with pale edges to the 

 latter; a dark copper-red patch on the middle of the crown; sides 

 of face and sides of neck similar to the back but somewhat paler ; 

 throat white ; breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, sides of body, 

 and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow more or less tinged with 

 umber-brown on the breast and sides of the body ; under surface 



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