190 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



wing-icoverts broadly tipped with whitish, outer webs oE flight- 

 quills narrowly edged with the same colour, inner webs more 

 broadly margined with dull white ; tail uniform pale brown ; 

 head somewhat darker than the back ; the feathers of the crest- 

 rather long and pointed ; no indication of a coronal patch ; ear- 

 coverts similar. to the back; lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, 

 and throat greyish white; breast and sides of body olive-grey and 

 more or less tinged with grey; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 pale sulphur-yellow like the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; 

 under surface of quills brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect 

 of tail uniform greyish brown. 



Total length 127 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 65, tail 81-, 

 tarsus 18. 



The female from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Abary River in July 1906. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female but slightly larger. 

 Wing 70 mm. 



The male compared is in the British Museum, and wascollected 

 at Mount Roraima on November 28, 1881, by the late Henry 

 .Whitely — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Abary River (McConnell collection) ; 

 Merume Mountains, Mount Roraima ( Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Peru, Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



477. Elsenea cristata parvirostris, 

 Shokt-billed Crested Flycatcher. 



Elmnia parvirostris Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. 107,178, 1869 (Curytiba); 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i, p. 290, no. 2955, 1912. 

 Ulainea alhieeps (nee Lafr. & d'Orb.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 



(Merume Mts., Roraima 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 141 (part), 1888 (Eoraima, Merumg Mts.) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) 



V. p. 90, 1891.( Georgetown). 



"Mufif-birds"((gMe/c/i). 



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

 including the head, back, lesser upper wing-coverts, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverfcs, and inner- 



