MYIOZETETES. 197 



Myiozetetes eayennensis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 295 (Bartica Grove, 

 Eoraima, 3500 ft,) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 160, 1888 

 (Eoraima, Bartica Grove) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) v. p. 90, 1891 

 (Georgetown) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 292, no. 2981, 

 1912. 



Adult female. General colour above dark smoke-brown including 

 the crown of the head, back, wings, and tail; a concealed patch 

 of orange-red on the middle of the crown ; base of forehead 

 and line over each eye, which unites on the nape, white ; 

 lores and sides of the face including the ear-coverts black; 

 median and greater upper wing-coverts and outer webs of flight- 

 quills narrowly margined with rufous as are also the upper tail- 

 coverts and tail-feathers, inner webs of flight-quills for the most 

 part rufous on the basal portion ; chin and throat white, remainder 

 of the under surface yellow becoming much paler on the vent and 

 under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts also yellow ; 

 under surface of flight-quills dark brown broadly margined with 

 rufous on the inner edges ; lower aspect of tail brown with buff 

 edgings at the tips. 



Total length lt52 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 83, tail 62, 

 tarsus 18. 



The female from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Abary River in November 1906. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female but larger in size. 

 Wing 90 mm. 



Breeding-season. [Jnknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs, Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Supenaam River, Makauria River, 

 Abary River, Arwye Creek, Arawai River (McConriell eollection) ; 

 Bartica, Mount Roraima, 3500 ft. ( Whitely); Georgetown (QweZcA). 



Extralimital Range. Northern Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, 

 Peru. 



Habits. According to Sohomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 701) 

 this bird is usually met with in flocks on the outskirts of woods 

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

 in pursuit of insects. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 90) observed this species 

 in Georgetown, and remarks : — " A fifth form of Kiskadee {Myio- 

 zetetes eayennensis) is also fairlj' common p,bout the city, though 

 chieffly seen on the outlying parts." 



