TIXAMUS. 3 



inteniiixcd with wliito ; a variegated lino ot" l)lat'k and white tm 

 each side of the nape: mantle and lesser n[)per wing-coverts lilack 

 minutely freckled with olive ; back black with wavy olive cross- 

 bars which increase in width on the lower back and runij) ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the mantle ; tail bhudv freckled with olive ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-- coverts, and (piills black, outer wel).s 

 ot" secondaries coarsely mottled with olive ; throat wliite mottled 

 with black ; lower £ore-neck and breast slate-grey with a slight 

 trace of narrow black wavy lines ; abdomen pale bufF; flanks and 

 thighs freckled with grey and buff; a black garter innnediately 

 above the knee-joint ; under tail-coverts ferruginous buff mottled 

 and lined with grey. "Iris red-brown" (Goering). 



Total length 4-i5 mm., culmen 37, wing iiy'I, tail 9G, tarsus 73 

 middle toe and claw 41. 



The McConnell collection does not possess an exam])le of this 

 species. The above description is taken Irom a sj)ecimen in 

 the British Museum, collected at San E.steban, Venezuela^ by 

 A. Goering : Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season , Unknown in British Guiana. 

 jSest. " A slight hollow scratclied in the ground " (Beehe). 

 Bggs. "The}' are of a medium shade of shining tnrcpioisc-blue. 

 In shape they are spheroidal, with almost equally rounded ends. 

 The measurements are 58 X 48 nnn.'^ (J^eehe). 



Bange in British (Jiiiana. Aremu River (Beehe). 

 Kxt ralimital Range. Venezuela and Colombia. 

 The occurrence ot this bird in British Guiana was first recorded 

 by C.'altanis, who described Schonil)urgk*s collection of birds {Keis. 

 Guian.iii. p. 749) which was made during the expedition to deter- 

 mine the boun<lary ])etween Venezuela and British Guiana. 

 Mr. McConnell did not observe it on any of his travels in the 

 Colony, neither was it ropreseiited in any of Whitely's collections. 

 Mr. (J. W. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 3J1, 381>), 

 however, mentions having seen it on tli(! Aremu Kiver. 



Tlie British Guiana i)ir<l was, until cjuite reeentlv, known 

 as 7'. fdo^ Temm. from I'ara, l)ut P>raboui-ne ;in(l ('liiil)i) haxe 

 (hiscribed it (Ann. k. Mag. Xat. Ili»t. (N) xii. p. .')7<S) as a separate 

 race. 



Mr. C. \V. nc('])(( fZoologica, vol. i. p. 71) records jiis (discr- 

 vations of the species in Venezuela; — "The lirst news we had of 

 this biid was at \\\v. villag*- of (Juanoco. wlu'ie sonic of (he native!* 

 and Indians recogui/.ed a jiainling I -jjowcd them. <'alling it 



