180 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Eggs. Un described from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Kamakabra River (McConnell col- 

 lection); Bartica, Kamarang Kiver (Whitely). 

 Extralimital Range. East Brazil. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



469. OrnitMon pusillum. 



Little Flycatcher. 



Myiopatis pusilla Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 58, 1859 (Cartagena). 

 OrnitMon pusillwn Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 294 (Bartica GrroTe) ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 126, 1888 (Bartica Grove). 



Adult ^male. General colour above olive including the hind- 

 neck, sides of neck, and ear-coverts, back, upper tail-coverts, 

 "scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; median and greaier 

 upper wing-coverts tipped with whitish which forms a double wing- 

 bar ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts brown like the flight-quills, 

 outer webs of the last slightly fringed with olive-green, inner 

 webs of flight-quills whitish ; tail similar in colour to the flight- 

 quills with pale margins to the tips of the feathers ; crown of head 

 darker than the back and inclining to dusky brown ; throat pale 

 grey ; breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 

 coverts sulphur-yellow ; under surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; 

 lower aspect of tail similar but paler and having white shafts to 

 the feathers. 



Total length 94 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 51, tail 42, 

 tarsus 13. 



The male described is in the British Museum, and was collected 

 by the late Henry Whitely at Bartica in June 1880 — Salvin- 

 Godman collection. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male* Wing 47 mm. The 

 female measured is from the Arawai River. ' 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana, 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Arawai River (McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Burtlett) ; Trinidad, Cayenne. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



