siCALis. 457 



G38. Sicalis. roraimse. 



ROBAIMA GkOUND-FiKCH. 



Sycalig citrina (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 217 (Merume Mts., 



Roraima, 2700-3700 ft.). 

 Pseudochloris citrina (nee Pelz.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 778, 



1888 (Merume Mts., Eoraima). 

 Pseudochloris Irowni (nee Bangs) Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 380, no. 3911, 1912. 

 Fseudochloris roraimcB Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (ser. x.) p. 194, 



Feb. 1, 1921. 



Adult male. Crown of head dark citron-yellow, with no indi- 

 cation of dark shaft-lines to the feathers ; wings and back 

 blackish brown with olive-grey margins to the feathers ; nimp 

 and upper tail-coverts dark olive-green; tail blackish brown 

 fringed with olive-green; the two outer feathers on each side 

 v?hite on the inner webs at the tips ; sides of face tawny yellow ; 

 throat, breast, and abdomen dull yellow, darker on the sides of 

 the body and paler on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 buff; under surface of flight-quills dark brown ; lower aspect of 

 tail similar to its upper surface but paler brown. 



Total length 116 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing 63, tail 44, 

 tarsus 14. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being blackish on 

 the upper surface with paler fringes to the feathers ; throat, 

 breast, and sides of body fawn-brown with dark shaft-lines to the 

 feathers, becoming whitish yellow on the lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts. Wing 58 mm. 



This species was quoted by Brabourne and Chubb in their ' List 

 of the Birds of South America,' as Pseudochloris browni (Bangs). 

 It differs from that species, however, in its smaller size and much 

 duller coloration. There is a series of twelve specimens in the. 

 British Museum all of which are quite constant in character. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Eoraima {Whitely). 



Habits, Unrecorded. 



