CHAPTER VIII. 



A LIST OF BIRDS OF THE BARTICA DISTRICT. 



A compilation of the list of the Tropical Research 

 Station of the Zoological Society and the Whitely list re- 

 veals a total of three hundred and fifty-one species. Those 

 marked with a star are new to the Colony of British Guiana. 

 The numbers are those of the birds of South America by 

 Brabourne and Chubb: 



TINAMIFORMES 



10 Guiana Great Tinamou....;.... Tinamus major (Gmel.) 



22 Pileated Tinamou Crypturus soui soui (Hermann) 



37 Variegated Tinamou Crypturus variegatus (Gmel.) 



GALLIFORMES 



74 Crested Curassow Crux alector Linn. 



93 Lesser Olive Guan Penelope marail (Gmel.) 



94 Greater Blue Guan Penelope granti Berlepsch. 



104 Little Chachalaca Ortalis motmot (Linn.) 



130 Guiana Partridge Odontophorus guianensis (Gmel.) 



COLUMBIFORMES 



149 Splendid Pigeon Columba speciosa Gmel. 



152 Rufous Pigeon Columba rufina rufina Temm. & Knip 



156* Plumbeous Pigeon Columba plumbea plumbea Vieill. 



161 Purple-tinted Pigeon Columba purpureotincta Ridg. 



175 Larger Grey Ground DoveChaemepelia passerina griseola Spix. 



179 Talpacoti Ground Dove Chaemepelia talpacoti (Temm. & Kr\ip) 



191 Grey-fronted Dove Leptoptila rufaxilla rufaxilla (Rich.&Bern.) 



204 Red Mountain Dove Geotrygon montana (Linn.) 



RALLIFORMES 



230 Cayenne Wood Rail 4ramides cajanea (P. L. S. Mull.) 



239 White-necked Crake Porzana albicollis Vieill. 



251 Cayenne Crake Crecisciis viridis (P. L. S. Mull.) 



