SPOROPHILA. 429 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being olive-btown 

 on the upper parts and dark fawn-colour on the under surface ; 

 the under wing-coverts are white, and the white wing-speculum 

 absent. Wing 57 mm. 



The specimen described above is in the British Museum. 



Brewing-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Griiiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains ^IfcConweZZ 

 collection). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



620. Sporopliila longipennis. 



Long-winged Seed-eatek. 



Sporopliila longipennis Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. ix.) 



p. 193, Feb. 1, 1921 (Eoraima, 3500 ft.). 

 SpermopMla grisea (nee Gmel.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 215 (Boraima, 



3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 96 part, 1888 (Eoraima). 

 Sporophila grisea (nee Gmel.) Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 364, 



no. 3735 part, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface dark slate- 

 grey, darker and inclining to blackish on the fore-part of the 

 head ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish brown, becoming paler 

 on the inner margins, the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries white 

 at the base, which forms a wing-speculum ; tail dusky-brown ; 

 sides of face, throat, sides of body, and thighs slate-grey but 

 paler than the back ; middle of breast, middle of abdomen, and 

 under wing-coverts dull white; outer under wing-coverts dark 

 brown ; axillaries, inner under wing-coverts, and base of quills 

 below white, remainder of quill-lining greyish brown ; lower 

 aspect of tail also greyish brown with white shafts to the 

 feathers. 



Total length 107 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 65, tail 42, 

 tarsus 15, middle toe and claw 13. 



The female is unknown. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the description is taken from the type, which is in the, British 

 Museum, and was collected by the late Henry Whitely at Moutit 



