NEOPELMA. 265 



The bill is short and slightly hooked at the tip of the upper 

 mandible. The rictal bristles are numerous and strongly developed. 

 The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest, 

 the second is intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh. 

 The tail is square at the tip and about five-sixths the length of the 

 wing. The feet are weak in structure, and the tarsus is about 

 twice the length of the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and 

 female similar. 



523. Neopellna chrysocephala. 



GOLDEN-CEOWNED MaNAKIN. 



JElcBnea aurifrons (nee Wied) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 



1848. 

 Seteropelma chrysocepJialum Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. 125, 185, 1869 



(Marabitanas, Eio l9anna). 

 Jieteropelma igniceps Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 301 (Camacusa, Eoraima) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 322, pi. xxii., 1888 (Camacusa, 



Essequibo River). 

 Scototliorus cJirysocephalus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 312, 



no. 3191, 1912. 



Adult male. Entire back, wings, and tail olive-green ; inner 

 webs of flight-quills dark brown with pale edgings; inner webs of 

 tail-feathers also brown ; sides of the crown dusky olive-green ; 

 middle of crown from the forehead to the nape rich orange ; lores 

 greyish ; sides of face green with a greyish shade ; sides of neck 

 and sides of breast olive-green ; chin, throat, and fore-neck grey 

 with' sulphur-yellow centres to the feathers; breast greyish olive- 

 green, more or less streaked with yellow like the sides of the body ; 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts sulphur-yellow — the greater series of the 

 latter and under surface of quills brown with pale inner margins 

 to the last ; lower aspect of tail pale brown. 



Total length 119 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 71, tail 47, 

 tarsus 17. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary River in 

 September 1907. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but slightly smaller. 

 Wing 67 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



