Results of a Visit to South Guyana. 155 



Tucano, Tityra cayana, and Monasa nigra, which sve noted 

 frequently, we met everywhere the " Cri-eri-6 " {Lathria 

 cineracea), a bird very well known to us as one of the most 

 striking figures in the wet " igapo-forests '^ of Para and 

 Lower Amazonia. Its indigenous name is onomatopoetic, 

 but its strident cry will be better given by the syllables hu-hu- 

 qui-quiu ! We saw also different smaller Pipridae [Chiro- 

 macharis and Pipra), a Bucco of median size (it seemed to be 

 B. tamatia) on a dry branch, and flights of the common 

 Pipira of Para {Rhamphocoilus jacapa). We shot an adult 

 individual of Idinia plumbea, and several '' Tangurii-para " 

 {Monasa nigra), in despite of the Amazonian legend, which 

 declares this bird to be enchanted and warns one not to kill 

 it, because, if the hunter does so, he will be unfortunate 

 and probably burst his gun. Another most interesting 

 Ant-Thrush was obtained, never met by us in Para [Myr- 

 meciza pelzelni), a dark chocolate-brown Formicarian, with 

 black throat and breast, bordered with white, and two rows 

 of clear fulvous spots on the wing-coverts. This very 

 beautiful bird was found near the ground in one of the 

 most obscure and entangled places of the forest. 



On some orange-trees in the gardens we observed the 

 magnificent Ccereba, not quite blue yet at this time. My 

 Para bird-hunter, who accompanied me on this excursion, 

 brought me on the same evening an agreeable surprise in 

 the shape of a specimen of Falco rufigularis^ , the celebrated 

 " Canare " of the Amazonian people, who attribute to this 

 very elegant and rapid Falcon several astonishing qualities, 

 to which I may refer at another time. 



Returning the next day to the same locality, I made all 

 possible efforts to obtain an example of Ara hyacinthina, but 

 again without success, because these intelligent birds, though 

 their cries are awful when they are alone and unobserved, 

 keep perfectly quiet when opening hard nuts on some 

 gigantic tree. On the other hand, I was somewhat in- 

 demnified by having the opportunity of witnessing the 



* [F. albigularis, Sharpe, B. M. C. i. p. 401. But cf. Gurnev, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 159, on this name.— P. L. S.] 



