MICBOPHILA. 



439 



Total length 102 mm., exposed culmen 7, wing 50, tail 38, 

 tarsus 14. 



The male described was collected on the Abary Eiver in July 

 1906. 



Adult female. General colour of the uppel: surface, including 

 the top of the head, back, wings, and tail, rust-brown ; median 

 upper wing-coverts dark brown with whitish margins; bastard- 

 wing, greater coverts, and primary-coverts hair-brown with pale 

 rufous margins to some of the feathers ; primary-quills dark 

 brown, paler on the outer edges and white on the inner margins : 

 tail also dark brown with buff margins to the feathers ; under sur- 

 face of body fulvous, rather paler on the abdomen : axillaries, 

 under wing-coverts, and inner edges of quills below whitish, 

 remainder of quill-lining hair-brown like the lower aspect of the 

 tail. Wing 47 mm. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary River, 

 November 1906. 



An immature male collected on the Abary River in November 

 1906 is similar to the adult female, but has the rump chestnut and 

 the under surface tinged with the same colour. 



A younger bird than the above, collected on the Supenaam 

 River in 1910, has the crown of the head, entire back, wings, and 

 tail olive-brown ; sides of the face and throat buff, as are also the 

 under tail-coverts, the breast and abdomen yellowish white, and 

 the axillaries and under wing-coverts white. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana, 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Supenaam River, Abary River [McConnell collection); 

 Mount Roraima ( Whitely) ; Georgetown {Brown, Quelcli); Hoorie 

 River (Beehe). 



E.vtralimital Range. Surinam (Linnd), Cayenne (Brit. Mus.), 

 North-east Brazil, Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Ecuador. 



Habits. Mr. J. J. Quelch, when writing on the birds of George- 

 town (Timehri (2) v. p. 83), mentions that there were several little 

 Finches from three to four inches in length, which as a rule 

 frequent the grassy and bushes" wastes seeking for grain and 



