siOALis. 455 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 there are no specimens from British Guiana in the British 

 Museum ; the descriptions are taken from specimens from 

 Santa Maria, Colombia. The male collected by Mr. F. A. A. 

 Simons, Salvin-Godman collection, and the female collected by 

 Claude W. Wyatt, Sclater collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Georgetown (Scliomburgk, Quelcli). 



Bxtralimital Range. Surinam {Linne), Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru, Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guin. iii. p. 679) that this 

 species frequents the coast, especially in the neighbpurhood of 

 Georgetown, where it may be met with in small flocks, asso- 

 ciating with other species of allied genera which frequent the 

 coal-palms and fruit-trees. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch, when writing on the Native Birds of George- 

 town (Timehri (2) v. p. 82), remarks as follows : — " Two other 

 common birds often met with, and like the foregoing known as 

 Canary, generally, grass canary, are, however, referable to the 

 tree finches. These are Sycalis flaveola and S. minor. 



" These pretty little birds are often to be seen flying about the 

 bushes and trees in the town, and are commonly found on the 

 high grass-stems in open places. They are great favourites as 

 cage-birds, and are often to be seen, in the common pith-cages, 

 being hawked about the streets." 



637. Sicalis minor.. 

 Little Yellow Finch. 



Sycalis minor Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 679, 1848 (George- 

 town) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 217 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. 

 p. 384, 1888. 



Sicalis minor Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 375, no. 3850, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface blackish 

 brown, including the head, back, wings, and tail, the feathers 

 on the crown of the head and hind-neck margined with 

 yellowish green and more narrowly on the upper back and lesser 

 upper wing-coverts; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform 



