HAPALOCERCUS. 165 



culmen. The wing is rounded, the second to the sixth primary- 

 quills longest and equal, the firsj; about equal to the eighth. The 

 tail is rounded at the tip and about four-fifths the length of the 

 wing. The tarsus is about one-third longer, than the exposed 

 culmen. Coloration : male and female similar. 



458. Hapalocercus striaticeps. 



Striped-headed Pygmy Tyrant. 



Hapalocercus striaticeps Salvin, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vii. p. xvi, 1897 

 (Annai, British Guiana) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 280, 

 no. 2849, 1912. 



Adult. Crown crested, the feathers dark brown with pale 

 margins, which look like a longitudinal streak along the centre 

 of the crown ; forehead more or less rust-brown ; lores and a line 

 over the eye smoky-white ; nape and sides of neck rust-brown ; 

 back and upper tail-coverts yellowish green with a tinge of riist- 

 colour on the rump ; lesser upper wing-coverts dark brown with 

 pale rufous margins, which are paler and inclining to whitish on 

 the median and greater series j primary-coverts almost uniform 

 brown ; flight-quills dark brown with pale edges to some of the 

 outer webs and slightly paler on some of the inner edges ; tail- 

 feathers brown with pale edgings ; sides of face for the most 

 part dark brown ; throat and entire under surface yellow with a 

 tinge of rufous along the outer edge of the wing below ; quills 

 below pale brown, the inner edges slightly paler; lower aspect of 

 tail pale brown with slight rufous edgings on the inner webs. 



Total length 103 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 45, tail 39, 

 tarsus 15. 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Abary River in November 1906. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs, Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Abary River {McConnell 

 collection); Annai {Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



