188 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Adult male. Greneral colour above dark olive-green including 

 the head, back, lesser upper -wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 median and greater upper wing-coverts tipped with white, 

 forming a double wing-bar; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 uniform dark brown j flight-quills dark brown slightly edged on 

 the outer web and more broadly on the inner one with whitish ; 

 tail rather paler brown than the flight-quills ; crown of liead 

 slightly darker than the back with a well pronounced yellowish- 

 white coronal patch ; ear-coverts like the back ; cheeks, throat, 

 breast, and sides of body pale olive-green ; middle of abdomen, 

 under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts sulphur- 

 yellow ; quill-lining brown with rather paler inner edges ; lower 

 aspect of tail pale brown. 



Total length 147 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 77, tail 70, 

 tarsus 19. 



The male described was collected by Mr. McOonnell at Mount 

 Roraima in October 1898. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but rather smaller. 

 Wing 72 mm. 



A young female in the British Museum differs from the adult 

 in being coffee-brown on the crown of the head, hind-neck, lesser 

 upper wing-coverts, back, and upper tail-coverts. Paler and less 

 yellow on the under surface with a dark band across the upper 

 breast, 



Breeding -season. Unknown. 



JS^est. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Eoraima {McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitely) . 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



475. Elsenea pagana ruflceps. 



Rufous-headed Crested Flycatcher. 



Elainea ruficeps Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. 108, 179, 1869 (Borba) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p, 294 (Merume Mts.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xiv. p. 152, 1888 (Memme Mts.). 

 Ulcdnia ru^ceps Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 289, no. 2945, 



1912, 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, sides of neck, back, 

 scapulars, upper tail-coverts, and lesser upper wing-coverts dusky 



