TODIEOSTRUM. 155 



Todirostrum cinereum Salvin, Ibis," 1885, p. 292 (Bartica Grove, 



Merumg Mts., Eoraima 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 69, 1888 (Bartica Grove, Eoraima) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) v. 



p. 91, 1891 (Georgetown) ; Lloyd, op. cit. xi. p. 4 (nests and eggs) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 272, no. 2773, 1912. 

 Todirostrum cinereum cinereum Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



p. 131, 1910 (Georgetown). 



"Pipitoorie" {Quelch). 



Adult male. Entire cro^A'n of head, sides of face, and hind-neck 

 black ; back dark slate-grey ; upper wing-coverts black edged 

 with yellowish-white ; primary and secondary quills also black 

 edged on the outer webs with- yellow and on the inner ones with 

 buffy-white ; tail black both above and below, the two outer 

 feathers tipped and the outermost edged with white on the 

 outer web ; lower cheeks and entire under surface bright yellow, 

 ratlier paler and inclining to whitish on the chin ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts very pale yellow; under surface of quills 

 brown with pale inner edges. " Bill and feet black " (Oat. B. 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 96 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 46, tail 33, 

 tarsus 21. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Bonasika River in 1912. 



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

 Wing 40 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Mest. liong and purse-like (C. A. Lloyd). 



Eggs. Small in size, two in number, and white in colour 

 [C.A. TAoyd). 



Range in British Guiana. Mount B,oraima, U[)per Takutu 

 Mountains, Supenaam River, Bonasika River, Mazaruni River, 

 Anarica River, Arawai River (McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Linne), Trinidad, Venezuelay 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii.p. 702) this 

 species is distributed throughout the Golony, and is most 

 commonly observed on the Cecropia trees. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 91) gives the following 

 note in reference to this species "at Georgetown : — " Among the 

 large trees with dense foliage, as well as the flowering shrubs 

 which the little Flower-peckers [Certhiola) frequent, will also 



