HL^NEA. 189 



olive-brown; coronal patch, which is more or less obscured, 

 cinnamon-rufous ; medJkn and greater upper wing-coverts soot- 

 black with pale greyish tips to the feathers, which form an 

 irregular double wing-bar ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 flight-quills also soot-black, with pale edges to some of the outer 

 webs of the last and white margins to the inner ones ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown becoming paler at the tips ; chin, throat, and remainder 

 of under surface dusky grey intermixed with sulphur-yellow 

 which is much increased on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow ; 

 under surface of flight-quills dark brown with pale margins ; 

 lower aspect of tail hair-brown with white shafts to the 

 feathers. " Bill brown, paler at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 ieet black" (Whitely). 



Total length 141 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 72, tail 64, 

 tarsus 21. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected by 

 Mr. McGonnell at Mount Roraima during his expedition in 

 October 1898. 



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

 Wing 66 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana, 



I^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Effgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima (McConnell collection) ; 

 Merum6 Mountains {Whitely). 



ExtralimitaX Range. Brazil. 



476. Elsenea cristata wMtelyl. 



Whitely's Ceested Flycatchek. 



Elainea albiceps (nee d'Orb. & Lafr.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 



(Roraima, Merume Mts.); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 141 



(part) 1888 (Merume Mts. and Eoraima). 

 Mtsnia cristata Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 289, no. 2941, 



1912. 

 Mcdnia cristata whitelyi Chubb, Ann. & Mag. (Nat. Hist. (ser. 9) 



iv. p. 304, Oct. 1919. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface dusky olive- 

 brown including the hind-neck, back, lesser upper wing-coverts, 

 and upper tail-coverts ; wings brown, median and greater upper 



