SPOROPHILA. 431 



Ifest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 JEffgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Abary 

 River {McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitely). 

 Extralimitat Range. Venezuela, Colombia, North-east Brazil. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



622. SporopMla americana. 



Gmelin's Seed-eatee. 



Loxia amencana Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 863, 1789 (Cayenne). 

 SporopMla americana Cab. in Schomb. Reis. in Guian. iii. p. 678, 1848 ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 367, no. 3760, 1912. 

 SperniopTiila collaria Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 214. 

 Spermophila cucullata Sharps, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 116, 1888. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface black includ- 

 ing the top of the head, sides of face, back, wings, and tail ; lesser, 

 median, and greater upper wing-coverts tipped with white ; flight- 

 quills white at the base, chiefly on the inner webs, but the fourth 

 to the eighth primaries are marked with white on the outer web 

 which forms a wing-speculum; lower back, rump, and short 

 upper tail-coverts grey, some of the feathers tipped with white, 

 long upper tail-coverts uniform dark grey ; tail uniform black ; 

 throat and a band across the sides of the neck white ; a narrow 

 dark band across the lower throat ; sides of breast black ; middle 

 of breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, and base of quills white pervaded with grey on the sides 

 of the body ; under surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of 

 tail blackish. 



Total length 114 ram., exposed culmen 9, wing 58, tail 46, 

 tarsus 16. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Anarika River. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface (including 

 the top of the head, sides of the face, entire back, wings, and tail) 

 oohreous-brown ; under surface much paler and inclining to 

 yellow on the middle of the abdomen;, axillaries' and under wing- 

 coverts white, or bufFy-white ; under-surface of flight-quills pale 

 hair-brown with buffy-white margins ; lower aspect of tail greyish 

 brown. Wing 53 mm. 



