238 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



p. 72 ; Quelch, Timehri (2) vi. p. 153, 1S92 ; Brabounie & Chubb, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 67, no. 623, 1912. 



" Goshawk " or " Grey-barred Buzzard " (QuelcJt). 



Adult male. Back and wings slate-grey with paler bars and 

 edges to the feathers, the quills notched or mottled with white on 

 the inner webs ; upper tail-coverts and tail blackish, the former 

 fringed with white and the hitter tipped, banded, and spotted with 

 white ; top of head and sides of face paler than the back, and 

 the shaft-lines more pronounced ; throat almost entirely white ; 

 remainder of the under surface barred with grey and white, 

 somewhat darker on the abdomen and much paler on the under 

 wing-coverts ; under tail-coverts white. 



Total length 385 mm., culmen 28, \ving 248, tail IGO, tarsus GO, 

 middle toe and claw 54. 



The description of the male is taken from an example collected 

 on the Mazaruni River. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but rather larger. 

 Wing 2G1 mm. 



The description of the female is taken from a specimen in tlie 

 British Museum collected by Whitely at Annai on Juno 10th, 1890 

 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kest. Built of twigs in one of the Erythrinen trees (ScJiomburr/k). 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, jVIazaruni 

 River, Abary River {]\lcConnell collection). 



Kxtralimital Range. Brazil, Colombia. 



Hahits. Regarding this species Schomburgk writes (Reis. 

 Guian. iii. p. 737) that the habits are the same as those of the two 

 preceding species * found on the coast. This species prefers the 

 inner branches of the Erythrinen-tree in the coflTee-plantation, 

 where it sits watching for its prey, which consists of insects, 

 reptiles, and small birds. He once found its nest on one of 

 these trees ; it was built of twigs and contained two young ones. 

 The " Macusis " and " Arekunas '" call it Wouira. 



Mr. J. J. Qiielch (Timehri (2) vi. p. 153) remarks on this 

 species as follows : — " The second species of the group, the so- 

 called Goshawk or Grey-barred Buzzard {Asturina nitida), is also 

 a common bird, more especially close to the town and about the 



* Geronospiz/as cceriflesceiis and JRi'jionn's maguirnstn's. 



