194 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



tinged with metallic green ; forehead, sides of face, and throat 

 dusky brown ; breast ferruginous ; abdomen greyish drab, some 

 of the feathers barred with white and black ; some of the feathers 

 on the sides of the body have ovate black spots ; axillaries pure 

 white, under wing-coverts black tinged with green on the outer 

 series, the greater series brown like the quill-lining. 



Total length 380 mm., culmen 38, wing 190, tail 82, tarsus 34. 



The bird described was collected at the Upper Takutu 

 Mountains. 



Bi'eeding-season, Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana, Upper Takutu Mountains [McCounell 

 collection) ; Annai ( IT lately). 



Extralimital Range. South America generally. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Heis. Guian. iii. p. 762) this 

 species associates with D. viduata and is found in very large Hocks 

 on the Savanna bogs. As soon as they begin to fly the two species 

 appear to separate. The " Macusis " call it Rojq.ong. 



Genus PffiCILONETTA Eyton. 



Poecilonetta Ej-ion, Monogr. Anat. p. 33, 1S38. Type P. hnliamensis 

 (Linn.). 



Tliis genus can be easily distingnished from the other genera 

 that occur in British Guiana, by the long and pointed tail. 



122. Poecilonetta bahamensls. 

 Bahama Pintail. 



Anas bahatiieusis Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. i. p. 124, l7o8 ("Habitat in 



Bahama "). 

 Poecilonetia lahamensis Salvad. Cat. B. Brit Mns. xxvii. p. 282, 1895 ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 56, no. 522, 1912. 

 Dafila hohamensis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 763, 1848; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 172. 



Adult male. Head, hind-neck, mantle, fore-neck, breast, and 

 abdomen rufescent with dark brown spots to the feathei's, which 

 are small on the head and neck and larger on the mantle and 

 under surface ; back and scapulars black with cinnamon-buff 



