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two-thirds the length of the exposed culmen, and the tip o£ the 

 upper mandible is sharply hooked. The wing is inclined to be 

 pointed, the second, third, and fourth primaries are longest and 

 incised on the inner webs at the tips, and the first is almost equal 

 in length to the fifth. The tail is square at the tip and about 

 three-fourths the length of the wing. The tarsus is about one- 

 fifth longer than the exposed culmen, and the hind toe and claw 

 about equal in length to the middle toe without claw. Coloration : 

 male and female similar. 



503. Empidonomus varius parvirostris. 



Guiana Steeaked Flycatcher. 



Tyranniis rufinus (nee Spix) Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 700 



184.8. 

 M)mpidonomus varius Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 298 (Eoraima 3500 ft., 



Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 265; 1888 (Bar- 



tica Grove, Eoraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 303, 



no. 3098, 1912. 

 JEmpiionomus varius varius (nee Vieill.) Beebe, Trop. "Wild Life Brit. 



Guiana, p. 225, 1917. 

 JEmpidonomus varius parvirostris Chubb, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, xl. 



p. 75, January 1920. 



Adult male. Greneral colour above dusky-brown with whitish 

 edges to many of the feathers ; crown of head, lores, and ear- 

 coverts dark brown with a concealed patch of orange-yellow on 

 the middle of the crown ; base of forehead and a broad line over 

 each eye white very slightly tinged with sulphur-yellow; back 

 dusky-brown, with grey bases and rather paler edges to the 

 feathers ; general aspect of the upper wing-coverts dark brown, 

 the marginal coverts narrowly edged with rusty-brown, the inner 

 ones margined with white on the outer webs like the median and 

 greater series and secondary-quills ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 Coverts almost uniform brown ; flight-quills also dark brown, 

 fringed with yellowish white on the inner webs ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail dark brown with dark rufous margins to the 

 feathers ; cheeks and throat greyish white ; breast and sides of 

 neck pale dusky-brown, with dark shaft-lines and pale margins 

 to some of the feathers — the margins becoming sulphur-yellow on 

 the lower abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts almost uniform sulphur-yellow ; under sur-, 



