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MYIOBIUS. 215 



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Key to the Species. 



A. Eump sulphur-yellow M. barbatus, p. 215, 



B. Eump coffiee-bi'own. 



a. Larger; wing more than 65 mm., tail 



more than 60 mm M. roraimcd, p. 216. 



h. Smaller ; wing less than 65 mm., tail less 



than 60 mm M.fasciatus, p. 217. 



C. Eump rufous M. erythrurus, ]}. 218. 



490. Myiobius barbatus. 



Whiskered Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa barbata Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 933, 1789 (Cayenne). 

 Myiobius barbatus Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 1848 ; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 297 (Eoraima, 3500 ft., Merume Mts., Camacusa, 



Eiver Atapurau, Bartica Grove) ; Solater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 199, 1888 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Eoraima, Eiver Atapurow); 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 296, no. 3017, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, and upper -wing-coverts dark green 

 with a yellow crest on the middle of the qrown, some of the 

 feathers tipped with green ; flight-quills blackish on the inner 

 webs with pale inner edges ; lower back and rump sulphur-yellow 

 like the abdomen and under wing-coverts ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail blackish; throat greyish white ; breast dusky-grey; under 

 tail-coverts ochraceous buff; lower surface of flight-quills dark 

 brown with pale inner edges ; lower aspect of tail blackish. " Bill 

 dark brown, base of lower mandible white ; feet pale brown " 

 (Cat. B. Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 120 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 70, tail 57, 

 tarsus 17. 



The male described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 November 1906. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 61 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Jiggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika Rivei-, Makauria River, Abary River, Berbice 

 River, Arwye River, Great Falls Demerara River {McConnell 

 collertion) ; Mount Roraima, Merume Mountains, Kamakusa, 

 Kamarang River, Bartica [Whitely). 



Exiralimital Range. Northern Brazil, Venezuela. 



