174 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



3.500 ft.); Sckter, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 117, 1888 (Roraima, 

 Merume Mts.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 285, no. 2899, 

 1912. 



Adult, Crown of head, beick, lesser upper wing-coverts, upper 

 tail-coverts, outer margins of flight-quills and tail-feath6rs dark 

 olive-green ; median and greater upper wing-coverts broadly- 

 tipped with biiff ; outer webs of some of the secondary-quills 

 marked with buffy-white; inner webs of flight-quills blackish 

 margined with white ; inner webs of tail-feathers hair-brown ; 

 sides of face olive-green with more or less black and greyish 

 white intermixed ; lores whitish at the base ; chin and throat 

 greyish white ; remainder of the under surface including the 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts greenish yellow ; under surface 

 of flight-quills dark brown with white margins j lower aspect of 

 tail-feathers brown with white shafts. 



Total length 110 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 60, tail 55, 

 tarsus 15. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 by Mr. McGonnell at Mount Roraima during his expedition 

 in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima (McConnell col- 

 lectiori); Merum^ Mountains, Mount Roraima ( Wliitely). 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus CAPSIEMPIS Cab. & fiein. 



Capsiempis Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 66, 1859. Type 

 G.Jlaveola (Licht.). 



Fig. 73. — Capsiempis Haveola. 



