222 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



edgings to the iijjier webs of the last wliich become buff on the 

 inner secondaries, the outer webs on some of the primaries also 

 have pale edges ; rump and upper tail-coverts inclining to dark 

 ochraceous ; tail brown ; the feathers on the lores dusky and 

 bristly in texture with a pale line running to above the eye ; 

 throat yellowish white ; remainder of the under surface sulphur- 

 yellow, including the axillaries and under AVing-coverts, with a 

 dusky band across the breast which is darker on the sides ; under 

 surface of quills brown with pale inner margins ; lower aspect of 

 tail pale brown. 



Total length 144 mm., exposed culmen 13, wing 73, tail 76, 

 tarsus 16. 



The bird described was collected at Bartica in 1911. 



There are no specimens of this species from British Guiana in 

 the British Museum. 



Young. Head, back, and tail rust-brown ; wings dark brown 

 with fulvous tips to the median and greater upper wing-coverts 

 and outer edges of some of the flight-quills and buffy-white 

 margins on the inner webs of the latter ; the pale loral streak 

 slightly indicated ; remainder of the under surface including the 

 under wing-coverts whitish tinged with yellow^ 



The bird mentioned above was collected on the Ituribisi River 

 in Augilst 1909. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



West. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J'Jggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Makauria River, Abary River, Anarica 

 Hiver (McConnell collection^. 



Extralimital Range. Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia. 



496. Empidochanes salvini, 

 Salvin's Roraima Fltcatchbr. 



JEmpidochanes salvini Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 218, 1888 

 (Mount Eoraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 299, 

 no. 3053, 1912. 



Empidochanes poecilurus Salvin (nee Sclater), Ibis, 1885, p. 298 

 (Roraima, 5000 ft.). 



Adult. Head, back, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts 

 dark slate-colour ; greater upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and 



