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white, while those of the hind-neck are tawny ; wings and back 

 dark brown, broadly barred with paler brown on the primary and 

 secondary quills, some of the inner primaries tinged with rufous, 

 all the quills broadly marked with white on the inner webs towards 

 the base ; upper tail-coverts marked with grey and white ; tail 

 black, with two pale slate-grey bands, a portion of the bands on 

 the inner web is white ; entire under surface white banded with 

 chestnut. 



Total length 430 mm., culmen 29, wing 274, tail 195, tarsus 3'», 

 middle toe and claw 37. 



We do not know the exact locality of the female described. 



Adult male. Differs from the adult female in being slate-grey 

 above and below, barred with white on the under surface and 

 inner webs of the quills, AVing 273 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. "Built of twigs in tall and inaccessible trees" (^Scliom- 

 hurgk). 



E(j(js. Undfscribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Kamakusa ( WldtehJ). 



E.ctralinntal Range. Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Central 

 America. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 736) that this 

 bird is found in similar localities to those of the previous species 

 (Rostrliamus soriabilis), and the nesting-habits are also the same. 

 Its flioht is very buovant. The " Macusis " call it Moriro. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) vi. pp. 138-140) remarks on this 

 bird as follows : — " This species, which is called the Tooth-billed 

 Kite, seems to be of dull sluggish habit. It does not occur 

 commonly on the coast, being more frequently, taken in the low- 

 bush and along the edges of the forest-creeks, where it seems to 

 delight iu seclusion/^ 



169. ClLondroliierax palliatus. 

 Cayenne Kite. 



Fdlco pnlliatus Temm. PI. Col. pi. 204, IS23 (Brazil and Guiana). 

 Odontriorchis cayennensis Cab. in Sehoiub. lieis. Guian. iii. p. 73G, 



1848. 

 Lfptodon cayennensis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 333, 1874 



(Demeram) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 7 7 (Koraima); Quelch, Timehri 



(2) vi. pp. 138-140, 1892 (habits;. 



