sroROPHiLA. 4:^3 



white ; the feathers on the breast and sides of the body are 

 marked with black and white — some having ovate white ti])s 

 which impart a dappled appearance ; abdomen, lower flanks, 

 -under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and base of 

 quill-lining white ; remainder of the under surface of the quills 

 and lower aspect of tail blackish. 



Total length ll^ mm., exposed culmen 7, wing 55, tail 45, 

 tarsus 15. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Supehaam River in 1^11. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface ochreous 

 brown ; throat, fore-neck, and sides of body fawn-colour ; middle 

 of abdomen yellowish ; thighs and under tail-coverts pale buff ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts buffy-white; under surface of 

 flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar but rather 

 paler. Wing 55 mm. 



The female of this species is not repi'esented in the McConnell 

 collection, neither is there a female specimen, from British 

 Guiana, in the National collection. The specimen described was 

 collected at Merida, Venezuela, by A. Goering, and is now in 

 the British Museum, Sclater collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



J^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Takutu Mountains, Supenaam River 

 (McConnell collection) : Kamarang River ( Hhitel^). 



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

 Colombia, Peru, North-eastern Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



624. Sporophila lineola. 



Lined Seed-eater. 



Loxia lineola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 174, 1758 (Guiana). 



SpermopJiila lineola Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 214 (Merume Mts., Camacusa, 



Roraima, 3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 131, 1888 



(MerumS Mts., Camacusa, Caramang lliver) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) 



v. p. 84, 1891 (Georgetown). 

 Sporophila lineola Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 367, no. 3769, 



1912 ; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 136, 1917 



(Bartica). 



Adult male. Lores, sides of crown, hinder face, hind-neck, 

 VOL. II. 2 F 



