CAPSIEMPIS. 175 



In this genus the hill is flattened, the width at the base being 

 about three-fifths the length of the exposed culmen and furnished 

 with rictal bristles. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth primary-quills longest and equal, the second about equal 

 in length to the eighth. The tail is rounded at the tip and 

 graduated and almost equal in length to that of the wing. The 

 tarsus is about one-third longer than the middle toe and claw. 

 Coloration: male and female similar. 



465. Capsiempis flaveola. 



Round-winged Flycatcheb. 



Muscicapa flaveola Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 56, 1823 (Baliia). 

 Capsiempis flaveola Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 120, 1888 ; 

 Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 285, no. 2903, 1912. 



Adult. General colour above yellowish green including the 

 head, back, upper wing-coverts, and scapulars ; median and 

 greater upper wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, which forms 

 a double wing-band; flight-quills dark brown edged with yellow 

 on the outer webs and fringed with white on the inner ones ; tail- 

 feathers brown very slightly edged with yellow ; lores and a 

 narrow superciliary streak white ; cheeks and throat yellowish 

 white ; remainder of the under surface yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts silky white ; under surface of quills brown with pale 

 inner margins; lower aspect of tail pale brown. 



Total length 97 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 48, tail 46, 

 tarsus 16. 



The bird described was collected in the Upper Takutu Mountains, 

 which is the only specimen in the McOonnell collection and is in 

 rather bad condition. There are no examples of this species 

 from British Guiana in the National collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Egg^. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Takutu Mountains {McConnell col- 

 lection). 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, East Peru, 

 Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



