DUNCAXULA. — TIARIS, 441 



surface of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail dark greyish brown 

 ■with slightly paler edges to the former. 



Total length 128 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 65, tail 58; 

 tarsus 20. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 by Mr. McC^onnell at Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Adult female. Greneral colour of the upper parts fulvous-brown 

 with broad black shaft-lines to the feathers on the top of the head 

 and back ; inner webs of flight-quills blackish brown, paler on the 

 inner edges ; tail-feathers also blackish brown with fulvous 

 margins to the feathers; sides of face and throat dusky-grey; 

 breast, sides of body, and abdomen rust-brown ; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts ash-grey ; under surface of flight- 

 quills and lower aspect of tail dark brown'. Wing 60 mm. 



The female described above was also collected by Mr. McConnell 

 at Moant Roraima in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



If^est. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima (McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitely) . 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus TIAEIS Swains. 



Tiaris Swainson, Zoological Journal, iii. p. 351, 1827. Type T. ornata 



(Wied). 



Fig. 165. — Tiaris phosoptila. 



This genus is distinguished by having the bill somewhat com- 

 pressed, pointed at the tip, the culmen keeled, nostrils oval and 

 feathered on the posterior portion. The wing is rounded, the 

 second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest, the first about 



