PHYI/LOMYIAS. — PH^OMYIAS. 177 



body; abdomen and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow; under surface of flight- 

 quills and lower aspect of tail hair-brown. 



Total length 99 mm., exposed culmen 6, width 5, wing 46, tail 40, 

 tarsus 14. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the female described was collected by the late Henry Whitely at 

 Mount Roraima, 3500 ft., on the 22nd of January, 1884; and a 

 second specimen, also a female, was collected by him at Bartica, 

 December 1879, both of which are in the British Museum — Salvin- 

 Grodman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



I^est. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



Effffs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Mange in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Bartica (^Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus PH-EOMTIAS Berl. 



PJiceomyias Berlepsch, Nov. Zool. ix, p.*H, 1902. Type P. incompta 

 (Cab. & Hein.). 



Fig. 75. — Fhaomyias incompta. 



The species that constitute this genus are birds of small si'ze. 

 The bill is short and flattened, the width at the base being about 

 three-fourths the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is 

 rounded, the second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and 

 ^ubequal. The tail is square at the tip and about three-fourths 

 the length of the wing. The tarsus, which is scutellated, is about 

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

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

 male and female alike. 



467. Phseomyias incompta. 



NoETHEKN Mouse-coloured Flycatcher. 



Mainea incompta Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 59, 1859 (Cartagena). 

 PJiyllomyias semifusca Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 293 (Bartica Grove). 

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