430 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Roraima at an altitude of 3500 feet, on the 24th of January, 1884, 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest, Unrecorded, 



Eggs. Undescribed^ 



Range eonpnei to British Guiana, Mount Roraima ( W- Mtely). 



Habits, Unrecorded. 



621. SporopMla wMteleyana. 



Whitely's Plumbeous Seed-eater. 



Spermophila plumbea (nee Wied.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 215. 

 Spermophila whiteleyana Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 98, 1888 



(Koraima). 

 SporopMla whiteleyana Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 365, 



no. 3740, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface lead-grey 

 including the crown of the head, sides of face, entire back, 

 scapulars, and upper wing-coverts, the greater series of the last 

 blackish like the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-.quills 

 with rusty edges to the feathers ; outer edge of wing white like 

 the primary and secondary quills ; tail black, some of the feathers 

 have pale edges ; chin, throat, sides of body, and breast also grey 

 but paler than the upper surface and becoming white on the 

 abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts ; 

 under surface, of flight-quills and lower aspect of the tail greyish 

 brown with white edges to the former. 



Total length 103 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 61, tail 40, 

 tarsus 15. 



The male described was collected in the Upper Takijtu Moun- 

 tains in 1908. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface earth-brown ; 

 inner webs of flight-quills dark hair-brown paler and inclining to 

 whitish on the edges ; tail hair-brown ; sides of the face, throat, 

 and entire under surface pale ochreous; under surface of flight- 

 quills and lower aspect of tail hair-brown with pale inner edges to 

 the former. Wing 54 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Abary River in 

 September in 1906. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



