526 BIRDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. 



sides of the body, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, darker on the 

 top of the head and the middle of the upper back, the latter being 

 more or less intermixed with black ; scapulars, wings, and tail 

 black ; the tips of tlie median and greater upper wing-coverts 

 broadly edged with white, which forms a double wing-bar ; inner 

 edges of flight-quills white ; lores and chin black ; axillaries 

 white tinged with red ; under wing-coverts white ; under surface 

 of flight-quills and lower aspect of tail black. 



Total length 148 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 78, tail 61, 

 tarsus 18. 



The male described was collected at Mount Roraima by 

 Mr. McConnell during his expedition in October 1898. 



Adult female. Crown of head, entire back, and upper tail- 

 coverts dull yellow, strongly tinged with green on the middle of 

 the back; wings dark brown, the median and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with white, which forms a double wing-bar; outer 

 webs of flight-quills narrowly edged with green ; tail also dark 

 brown, the feathers fringed with green on the outer webs; sides 

 of face similar to the top of the head ; lores dusky ; throat and 

 breast orange-yellow ; sides of body greenish yellow ; thighs 

 dusky ; middle of abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow ; 

 axillaries and inner under wing-coverts white, the outer coverts 

 dusky-brown, similar to the quill-lining ; lower aspect of tail 

 pale dusky-brown. Wing 71 mm. 



The female from which the description is taken was collected 

 by the late Henry Whitely on Mount Roraima, at an altitude of 

 5000 ft., August 23, 1883, and is now in the British Museum, 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Immature male. Differs from the adult male in having the 

 head, back, sides of face, and entire under surface orange-red, 

 and the long under tail-coverts lemon-yellow; the under pariis 

 paler and brighter than the orange-red portion of the upper 

 surface. 



Tlie immature male was collected at Mount Roraima. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima {McConnell eoU. 

 lection); Mount Roraima [Whitely). 



