viEEO. 393 



Extralhnital Range. Colombia, North-west Peru. For distri- 

 bution in North and Middle America see Ridgway, vol. iii. p. 147. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



594. Vireo roraimse, sp. nov. 



RORAIMA GrEENLET. 



Vireo chivi (nee Vieill.) Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 295, 1883; 



Brabourne & Chubt, B. S. Amer. i. p. 348, no. 3565, 1912; 



Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 135, 1917 (Bartica). 

 Vireo agilis (nee Licht.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 204 (Bartica Grove', 



Camacusa, Eoraima, 3500 ft.). 



Adult. Crown of head brownish grey with a dark line on each 

 side over the eye ; back, wings, and tail yellowish green ; inner 

 webs of flight-quills dark brown edged with sulphur-yellow ; 

 inner webs of tail-feathers margined with whitish ; throat, breast, 

 and abdomen silky-white ; under tail-coverts, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts lemon-yellow ; quills below pale brown, with 

 yellowish-white inner edges ; lower aspect of tail pale brown 

 with a yellowish tinge. 



Total length 115 mm., exposed culmen 13, wing 75, tail 57, 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 by the late Henry Whitely at Mount lioraima, now in the British 

 Museum, Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British. Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains 

 (McConnell collection^; Mount Roraima, Kamakusa, Annai, 

 Bartica .( Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



