160 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



454. MicrococMearius josepMnse. 



Josephine's Tody-Ttrant. 



(Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Euscarthmus josepMnte Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxiii. p. 132, 

 May 28, 1914. 



Adult {type of the species). General colour o£ the upper surface 

 olive-green including the head, back, wings, and tail ; inner webs 

 of flight-quills brown with pale inner margins ; lores whitish at 

 the base ; ear-coverts pale brown ; throat and entire under surface 

 lemon-yellow suffused with dusky grey on the throat where the 

 yellow is very pale, becoming deep ochraceous-yellow on the breast, 

 sides of the body, thighs, and under tail-coverts; under wing- 

 coverts rather paler yellow than the abdomen ; under surface of 

 quills brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of tail brown 

 with white shafts to the feathers. 



Total length 109 mm., exposed culraen 12, wing 55, tail 44, 

 tarsus 20. 



The type was collected on the Supenaam River jn 1910. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Supenaam River (McConnell 

 collection) . 



Habits. 'Unrecorded. 



Genus PERISSOTRICCUS Oberh. 



Perissotriccus Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 64, 1892. Type 

 jP. ecaudatus (d'Orb & Lafr.). 



Fig. 65. — Perissotriccus ecaudatus. 

 The species included in this genus are conspicuous by their 



