HKMITHBACPIS. LAMPEOSPIZA. 543 



wings, and tail yellowish green ; inner webs of flight-quills dark 

 brown with pale margins ; lower back and rump bright fawn- 

 colour like the fore-neck ; upper and under tail-coverts, sides of 

 neck, lores, and a line over the eye yellow ; throat and sides 

 of face black; sides of body and thighs ash-grey; middle 

 of abdomen pale yellow ; under wing-coverts and inner margins 

 of quills below white; remainder of quill-liuing dark brown ; 

 lower aspect of tail similar to its upper surface. 



Total length 124 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 67, tail 49, 

 tarsus 16. 



The male described was collected on the Abary Eiver in July 

 1906. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the upper 

 surface yellowish olive-green, including the top of the head, sides 

 of face, sides of neck, nape, entire back, upper tail-coverts, wings, 

 and tail; inner webs of flight-quills dark with whitish margins; 

 throat and remainder of under surface pale yellow ; sides of body 

 grey; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and base of quills below 

 white, remainder of quill-lining hair-brown. Wing 65 mm. 



The female described was collected at Mount Roraima by 

 Mr. McGonnell during his expedition in October 1898. 



Breedinfi-season. Unknown. 



Neit. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Abary 

 River {McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima (^Whitely). 



Hahits. Unrecorded. 



Genus LAMPEOSPIZA Cab. 



Lamprospiza Cabanis, Arch, fiir Naturg. pt. i. p. 246, 1847. Type 

 L. melaiiolettca (Vieill.). 



Fig. 197. — Lamprospiza charmesi. 

 In this genus the bill is pointed and somewhat large in 



