^8 BIRPS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



God man collection. We have not been able to see a male speci- 

 men, but, accorJino- to Leotaud, the spxes are alike. 



Breedinn-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



^'est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Koffs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Runf/e in British Guiana. Bartica (McConneU collection) . 



E.vtralimital Range. Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia. 



Ifahits. Schomburgk states (Keis. Guian. iii. p. 7G0) that tlie 

 habits and mode o£ lite of this bird are simihir to those of 

 A. cajanea (see below). 



30. Aramides cajanea. 

 Cayenne Wood-Rail. 



Aramides cajanea (V. L. S. :^^i^^.), Syst. Xat. Suppl. p. 119, 176G 



(Cayenne) ; Bra bourne ct Cluibb, B. S. Anier. i. p 23, no. 280, 1912. 

 Ortygarchiis cai/ennensis Cab. in iSchomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 7o9, 1848. 

 Arai/'ides cayennensis Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 176 (Bartica Grrove, 



Camacusa). 

 Aramides cayanea Shai"j>e, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 57, 1894) 



(Bartica Grove) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 378, 389, 



1910 (Abary Savannas). 



" Killicow " {Beehe). 



Adult female. Crown of head dusky brown ; sides of face and 

 entire neck all round slate-grey, paler on the fore-ueck ; throat 

 whitish ; upper wing-coverts, middle of the back, and tertials 

 olive ; lower back, tail, flanks, under tail-coverts, and vent dull 

 black, thighs rather paler and more sooty brown ; bastard-wing 

 and quills pale chestnut, beconiing darker at the tips; breast and 

 abdomen chestnut ; axillaries and under wino-coverts black 

 barred with rufous. 



Total length 200 mm., culmen 46, wing 172, tail 53, tarsus GO, 

 middle toe and claw ()'2. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female, but rather largrer. 

 Wing 181 mm. 



The bird described was collected on the Ttnribisi River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Bartica, Abarv River, 

 Anarica River {McConneU collection^ ; Kamaku.sa (Whitely). 



E.rtralimit'd Range. Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil. 



IJahits. Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, }». 378) gives 



