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VI. — Notes on Birds from British Guiana. 

 By OsBERT Salvin and F. D. Godman. 

 (Plate I.) 

 Mr. Henry Whitely, who for some time past has been 

 sending us collections of birds from the neighbourhood of 

 Bartica Grove, in British Guiana, has lately made an excur- 

 sion further into the interior of the country, and, ascending 

 the Mazaruni river, has penetrated as far as the Merume Moun- 

 tains, which lie on the south bank of that river, under the 

 60th degree of west longitude. Here and at a place called 

 Camacusa, lower down on the Mazaruni river, he made 

 a large collection of birds, which reached us in excellent 

 condition a few weeks ago. 



Amongst the specimens sent we find several that appear 

 to us to belong to undescribed species. These we now make 

 known, adding some notes on other species which have oc- 

 curred to us in determining the names of the birds of the 

 whole collection. 



The present collection was made at an elevation of about 

 2000 feet above the sea ; and in it we get several forms 

 usually found at similar elevations in the Andes, and of high 

 interest on this account. 



Mr. Whitely has again proceeded into the interior, with 

 the intention of working in the neighbourhood of the 

 Roraima Mountains, so well known not only for their 

 peculiar physical features, but as the ground where Schom- 

 burgk, some thirty-five years ago, made many remarkable 

 discoveries and procured several birds that to this day have 

 remained unique in the Berlin Museum, where they were 

 originally deposited. 



We hope at some future day, when Mr. Whitely has 

 finished his labours in that country, to give a general resume 

 of the results of his expedition. In the meantime the 

 following descriptions and notes contain an account of his 

 chief discoveries. 



CiCHLOPSIS GULARIS, Sp. U. 



Supra saturate brunnea, cauda paulo rufescentiore ; subtus 



