MTOSPIZA. BRAOHYSPIZA. 461 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Eorainica, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Abary River (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima 

 ( Whitely). 



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

 Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus BRACHYSPIZA Ridgw. 

 JBracliyspiza Eidgway, Auk, xv. p. 224, 1898. Type B. capensis (Mull.). 



Fig. 174. — Bracliyspiza macoonnellL 



The members of this genus are birds of larger size than thuse of 

 the previous genus. The bill is proportionately long and pointed, 

 its depth and width at the base are equal to about half the 

 length of the exposed calmen. The wing is rounded, the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and equal and the first 

 about equal in length to the seventh. The tail is square at the 

 tip and about five-sixths the length of the wing'. I'he tarsus is 

 about twice the length of the exposed culmen and the middle toe 

 and claw nearly equal in length to tarsus. Coloration : male and 

 female similar. ' 



641. Brachyspiza macconnelli. 



McConnell's Song-Spaerow. 



ZonotricMa matutina (nee Licht.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. 



p. 679, 1848 (iRoraima). 

 ZonotricMa pileata Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 210 (Merame Mts., Eoraima) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit Mus. xii. p. 610,1888 (Eoraima, Merume Mts.). 

 Brachyspiza macconnelli Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc, (2) Zool. \iii. p. 53, 



pi. iv. fig. 1, 1900 (Mount Eoraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 



Amer. i. p. 378, no. 3883, 1912. 



Adult. Crown of head and sides of face dusky, as are also 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; sides of crown, hinder face, and 



