392 BIKDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Bartica {McConnell 

 collection) : Bartica, Kamakusa ( Whitely). 



Esstralimitdl Range. Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, Jamaica, 

 S. Domingo, Lesser Antilles. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



593. Vireo olivaceus. 



■Red-eyed Gkeenlet. 



Muscicapa olivacea Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. .327, 1766 (Carolina). 

 Vireo olivaceus Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 294, 1883 ; 

 Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 348, no. 3563, 1912. 



Adult. Crown of head and nape slate-grey with a dark brown 

 line on each side of the crown followed by a parallel line of buif y- 

 white from the lores over the eye and extending along to the sides 

 of the nape ; a dusky spot in front and behind the eye ; back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, wings, and tiiil green ; inner 

 webs of bastard-wing and primarj'-covert.s- dark brown ; inner 

 webs of flight-quills also dark brown with white margins ; tail- 

 feathers buffy-white on the inner margins; sides of face, sides of 

 neck, and sides of body paler than the back ; throat, breast, 

 aodonien, and under tail-coverts white with a slight yellowish 

 tinge, which is much more pronounced on the under tail-coverts; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts lemon-yellow ; under surface , 

 of quills hair-brown with yellowish-white margins ; lower aspect of 

 tail similar, but paler. 



Total length 139 mm., exposed culmen 13, wing 82, tail 55, 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 February 1907. 



The sexes ajipear to be similar both in colour of plumage and 

 measurements. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in, British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River (McConnell col- 

 ection) . 



