TYRANNUS. 235 



Tyrannus satrapa Brabonnie & Cliubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 304, no. 3104, 

 1912. 



"Kiskadie" {Quelch). 



Adult male. Head and sides of face ash-grey ; a large concealed 

 patch oi orange-red on the top of the head ; backj scapulars, and 

 le'sser upper wing-coverts olive-green ; bastard- wing ^nifoim 

 dark brown ; median and greater upper wing-coverts brown, 

 edged with olive-green like the primary-coverts ; flight-quills 

 dark brown, slightly edged on the primaries and more broadly on 

 the secondaries with olive-green, the inner webs margined with 

 yellowish white ; upper tail-coverts and tail dark brown, with 

 olive-green fringes to the former and pale edges to the latter ; 

 cheeks and throat pale ash-gvey ; breast greenish yellow ; abdo- 

 men and sides of body bright yellow ; under. tail-coverts, axillaries, 

 and under wing-coverts lemon-yellow ; marginal under wing- 

 coverts and under surface of flight-quills pale brown with sulphur- 

 yellow margins to the feathers ; lower aspect of tail uniform 

 brown. 



Total length 200 mm^, exposed culmon 25, wing 113, tail 91, 

 tarsus 19. 



The description is taken from a male collected at Bartica 

 in 1911. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in coloration but slightly 

 smaller in measurements. Winff 110 mm. 



The young bird difl'ers from the adult in the absence of the 

 concealed orange-red patch on the crown of the head, which is 

 represented by lemon-yellow, in having the upper wing-coverts, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers fringed with rufous, and the 

 throat and fore-neck white. 



The young bird described above was collected on the Itwribis-i 

 Eiver in 1909. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kest. A small round nest made of dry sticks, lined with grass, 

 and generally placed in the upper branches of low trees (^H. Lloyd 

 Price). 



Eggs. Three in number ; white spotted with red-brown and 

 grey (^H. Lloyd Price) . 



Range in British Guiana, Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, Bartica, Abary 

 River, Tiger Creek (McConnell collection); Mount Roraima, 



