380 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Merume Mountains, 

 Kamarang River ( Whitelyy. 



E.vtralimital Range. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



581. Planesticus roraimse. 



Roraima Ouzel. 



Turdus roraimoe Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 443 (Eoraima, 5000- 



6000 ft.) ; Salvin, op. cit. 1885, p. 198. 

 Merula roraimoe Sharpe, Hand-List of Birds, iv. p. 120, 1903. 

 Planesticus roraimoe Braboui-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 344, 



no. 3513, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, and throat black ; 

 entire back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts 

 dark olive-brown ; flight-quills and tail-feathers dark smoke- 

 brown ; breast, abdomen, sides of the body, thighs, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts ochreous-brown, paler and incling to buff on 

 the middle of the abdomen ; under tail-coverts dark olive-brown 

 with pale tips to the feathers. 



Total length 240 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 124, tail 95, 

 tarsus 34. 



The above description is taken from the type in the British 

 Museum, which was collected by Whitely on Mount Roraima, 

 6000 ft., August 22, 1883 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Adult female. Entire back, from the lower hind-neck and in- 

 cluding the upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts 

 dusky olive-brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, flight-quills, 

 and tail-feathers dark smoke-brown, more or less olive on the • 

 outer aspect of the wing and margins of the tail-feathers ; head 

 and sides of the face deep black, with long filo-plumes to the 

 feathers on the nape ; throat, fore-neck, sides of neck, and upper 

 breast dusky olive-brown, with longitudinal black streaks on 

 the throat ; breast, abdomen, and sides of the body buff, tinged 

 with olive like the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; under tail- 

 coverts dusky-brown more or less intermixed with buff ; under 

 surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail dark brown. 



Total length 235 mm., exposed culmen 21, wing 122, tail 96, 

 tarsus 31. 



