MYIOBIUS. 217 



492. Myiobius fasciatus. 

 Little Brown Flycatcher. 



Museicapa fasciafa P. . L. S. Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 172, 1776 



(Cayenne). 

 Myiobius ncBvius Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 297 (Eoraima, 3500 ft.) ; Selater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 209, 1888. 

 Myiobius fasciatus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 298, no. 3040, 



1912. 



Adult male. Greneral colour of the upper surface smoke-brown 

 'becoming rust-brown on the upper tail-coverts; middle of crown 

 bright lemon-yellow, inclining to white on the nape, with smoke- 

 brown tips to the feathers ; median and greater upper wing- 

 coverts dark brown with bufEy- white tips to the feathers ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackish brown, the inner 

 margins of the last and some of the outer edges of the secondaries 

 whitish ; tail hair-brown ; lores whitish ; rictal bristles black ; 

 hinder face and sides of neck similar to that of the hind-neck ; 

 throat greyish white ; fore-neck tinged with fawn-colour as are 

 also the thighs ; remainder of under surface yellowish white with 

 brown shaft-streaks to the feathers on the breast and sides of the 

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

 edges of quills below buff ; remainder of the quills below hair- 

 brown ; lower aspect of tail similar but rather paler. 



Total length 121 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 59, tail 53, 

 tarsus 16. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being more rust- 

 brown on the upper parts and in having the coronal patch orange 

 in front and yellowish white on the hinder part which forms a 

 nape patch. Wing 55 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the descriptions are taken from examples in the British Museum 

 collected by Whitely on Mount lloraiuia at an altitude of 3500 leet 

 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breedinp-sea&on. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Eoraima (^Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, 

 Bolivia, and Argentina. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



