KLiENEA. 187 



Adult male. Hind-neok, back, lesser upper wing-coverts, and 

 upper tail-coverts dusky olive-brown ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts brown like the median and greater wing-coverts and 

 flight-quills, the median and greater series of coverts broadly 

 margined with dull white, as are also the outer edges of the inner 

 secondaries J outer margins o£ primary-quills yellow; tail pale 

 brown ; crown of head, which is crested, similar in colour to the 

 back with yellowish-white bases to the feathers ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of neck similar to the back ; lores, feathers encircling the 

 eye, and throat greyish white; breast and sides of body yellowish 

 olive-brown; middle of abdomen, vent, un(3er tail-coverts, axil- 

 laries, and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow like the inner 

 margins of the quills below, remainder of quill-lining pale brown, 

 as is also the under surface of the tail. 



Total length 155 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 78, tail 68, 

 tarsus 20. 



The male described was collected on the Supenaam River. 

 Adult female. Similar tb the adult male in general plumage, but 

 differs in the much less pronounced white coronal patch. Wing 

 78 mm. 



The female described was collected at Bartica in 1911. 

 Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 

 Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana, 



Mange in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takuta 

 Mountains, Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, Bartica, Bonasika 

 River, Abary River (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, 

 Bartica {Wliitely); Georgetown {Quelch, Beehe). 

 Extralimital Range. Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela. 

 Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 701), 

 this bird is iisually observed in flocks frequenting the outskirts of 

 woods, and the gardens of the natives, where it flies from tree to 

 tree in search of insects. 



474. Elsenea pag-ana olivina, 



Guiana Chested FLyoATCHEK. 



Elainea olivina Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 446 (Eoraima) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 (Camacusa, Eoraima, 5000-6000 ft. ) ; 



Solater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 146, pi. xii. 1888 (Eoraima). 

 Mcenia olivina Braboui'ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 289, no. 2952, 1912. 



