176 BIRDS OF BRITISH aUIANA. 



Genus EHYLLOMYIAS Cab. & Hein. 



Phyllomyias Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 57, 1859. Type 

 P. hrevirostris (Spix). 



Fig. 74. — PTiyllomyiaB hrevirostris. 



The species on which this genus was founded are birds of 

 somewhat small size. The bill is short and flattened, the width 

 at the base being about half the length of the exposed culmen. 

 The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries 

 longest and subequal, the first about equal in length to the sixth. 

 The tail is square at the tip and proportionately long, being nearly 

 as long as the wing. The tarsus is strongly scutellated and about 

 twice the length of the exposed culmen. The hind toe and claw 

 are about equal in length to the middle toe and claw. 



466. Pliyllomyias griseiceps, 



Grey-hkaded Flycatcher. ; 



Tyranniscus griseiceps Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 873 (Baba- 

 hoyo, Ecuador) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 (Bartica Grove, 

 Eoraima .3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 134, 1888 

 (Bartica Grove, Roraima). 



Phyllomyias griseiceps Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 286, 

 no. 2910, 1912. 



Adult female. Back, scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and lesser 

 upper wing-coverts dull olive-green ; crown of head and nape 

 tinged with grey-; median and greater upper wing-coverts dark 

 brown with olive-grey tips to the feathers ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackisb with whitish inner 

 margins, outer edges of secondaries also whitish ; tail hair- 

 brown with olive margins to the feathers ; supraloral streak and 

 eyelids whitish ; ear-coverts similar to the crown ; a dark spot in 

 front of the eye ; cheeks yellowish dotted with black ; chin and 

 throat grey with blackish bases to the feathers; breast and sides 

 of breast yellowish olive, inclining to grey on the sides of the 



