ELAINOrSIS. 193 



Tllcenia guianensis Berlepsch, Proo. iv. Intern. Orn. Congr. London, 

 1905, p. 421, 1907 (Camacusa) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. 

 i. p. 290, no. 2961, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts olive-green, 

 including the hind-neck, back, upper wing-coverts, and upper 

 tail-coverts I ; median and greater upper wing-coverts edged with 

 whitish ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform brown ; 

 flight-quills dark _ brown with green or whitish edgings on the 

 outer web and pale edges on the inner webs ; tail-feathers pale 

 brown with olive-green edges; crown of head blackish, with a 

 large white coronal patch ; sides of face dusky ; loral streak and 

 short feathers surrounding the eye greyish white ; throat pale 

 grey becoming darker on the breast and sides of the neck, where 

 it is more or less intermixed with yellow like the sides of the 

 body ; abdomen, under-tail coverts, axillaries, and under wing- 

 coverts yellow, paler on the last; under surface of quills brown 

 with buffy-white inner margins ; tail below pale brown. 



Total length 119 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 55, tail 49, 

 tarsus 18. 



The male 'described was collected on the Makauria River in 

 August 1910. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 53 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Gruiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana, 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Kaniakabra River, Makauria River, Arawai River 

 {McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Merume Mountains, 

 Kamakusa, Bartica (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Trinidad, North-east Brazil. 



Note. I notice that Berlepsch has recorded Elainoides flavivertex 

 (Sclater) from Cayenne (Nov. Zool. xv. p. 134), but I have not 

 found any trace of its occurrence in British Guiana. 



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