•1<S BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



30. Leptoptila verreauxi. 



Rusty Duye. 



Leptoptila verreauxi Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 73, 1854 (Xew Granada) ; 

 Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 548, 1898 (Quonga) ; Brabourne 

 & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 19, no. 189, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above greyish olive-ljro%vn iiicludino; 

 the winrrg^ entire back, and middle tail-feathers ; outer tail- 

 feathers blackish tipped with white and fringed with white on the 

 outer web of the outer feather ; hinder crown, nape, and hind- 

 neck coppery red with green and purple reflections ; forehead, 

 throat, breast, and sides of the body pale vinous becoming white 

 on the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts bright chestnut like the quill-lining ; under surface 

 of tail glossy black tipped with white. " Bill black, iris orange, 

 n:iked s})ace round the eyes and feet red." 



Total length 230 mm., culmen 18, wing 130, tail 101, tarsus 23. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but with scarcely any 

 metallic sheen on the mantle. ^Ving 127 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J'^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Abary River, Aurora (.'reek, Tiger 

 Creek, Great Falls, Demerara River (McCon)iell collection); 

 Quonga ( WJdtehj). 



E.vtralimital Range. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



31. Leptoptila rufaxilla. 

 Grey-fronted Doye. 



Leptoptila rufaxilla (Richard & Bernard), Actes Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 

 i. p. 118/1792 (Cayenne) ; Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 551, 

 1893 (British Guiana ; Quonga, Bartica Grove) ; Beebe, Our 

 Search for a Wilderness, pp. 131, 139, 389, 1910 (Georgetown, 

 Hoorie Creek) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 19, no. 191, 

 1912. 



Peristera jamaicensis (Temm.), Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 744, 

 1848. 



Engifptila rufaxilla Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 174 (Bartica Grove, Cania- 

 'cusa. Roraima, 3500 ft. ) ; Lloyd Price, Timehri (2) v. p. GG, 1891 ; 

 Quelch, torn. cit. p. 1U7. 



Adult male. Entire back, wings, and middle tail-feathers 



