lONORNIS. 79 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Barlica, 

 Abary River (^McCvnnell collection) ; Georoetown (QuelcJt). 



Extralimital Range. Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay^ West Indies, 

 Central America north to Texas and Florida. 



Habits. Scljombiu'gk mentions this bird (Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 761) as one of the commonest in British Guiana. It is found 

 in flocks, especially along the edges of the bogs near tie coast. 

 The "Macusis" call it Amutultu. 



48. lonornis flavirostris. 

 Little Gallinule. 



lonornis flavirostris (Gmel.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 699, 17S9 (Cayenne); 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 26, no. 2.39, 1912. 

 Porpht/riola parva (Bodd.) [nee Forst. 17S1], Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xxiii. p. 191, 1894 (Aunai). 



Adult male Head, hind-neck, upper back and scapulars brown 

 with greenish edges to the feathers; lower back, rump, upper 

 tail-coyeits, and tail blackish brown with white tips to the upper 

 tail-coyerts and tail ; upper wing-coyerts and outer webs of quills 

 pale greenish blue like the sides of the face and sides of breast ; 

 under surface white, including the axillaries and untler wing- 

 coverts, with a wash of pale blue on the fore-neck and ))reast. 

 " Bill and shield light green ; legs and toes yellow-ochre ; claws 

 orange-brown ; iris reddish brown" (//. Wlntelij). 



Total length 230 mm., bill from gape 23, v\ing 138, tail 72, 

 tarsus 42, middle toe and claw 58. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 



Immature birds are distinguished by the buff on the sides of 

 the face, fore-neck, and breast. 



Tiie male described is from Hoobaboo. 



Young. Head, hind-neck, mantle, and scapulars rusty olive- 

 brown ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts sooty-black with 

 f(!rruginous edgings to the feathers ; tail bron/,y l)rown, rather 

 broadly tij){)ed with white ; wings dull greenish blue ; throat 

 and entire under surface white with a wash of sandy buff, moro 

 intensely on the fore-neck, sides of nock, sides of face, and ear- 

 coverts. 



Brei'ding-season. Unknown in Briti.sli Guiana. 



