274 BIRDS or BRITISH GUIANA. 



soar over the woods. The " Macusis '' and the " Arekunas ' call 

 it L'moi. 



According to Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) vi. p. 127) "this bird 

 is coinnionlv distributed in the Colony, but is most frequently 

 met with along the creeks and the open clearings in the forest 

 along the course of the great rivers, more especially in elevated 

 situations." 



Genus ICTINIA Vieiil. 



Ictifiia Yieillot, Anal. nouv. Orn. p. 24, 1S16. Type /. plumhea 

 (GmeL). 



The members of this genus are characterized by having but one 

 tooth in the uj>per mandible and the tips of the wings, when 

 closed, reaching to the end of the tail. 



173. Ictlnia plumbea. 



Plumbeous Kite. 



Talco plumheus Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 2>>3, 17SS (Cayenne). 



Ictinia plumhea Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guiana, iii. p. 735, 1S4S ; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 364, 1874; Salvin, Ibis, lhS6, p. 77 (Bartica 



Grovej ; Quelch, Timehri (2j v. p. 105, 1S91 (Georgetown^ ; id. 



op. cit. vi. pp. 120-12>>, 1S92 ; Brabovume & Chubb, B. S. Ainer. 



i. p. 72, no. 665, 1912. 



"Chicken-Hawk," "Kite-Falcon,'' ''Pigeon-Hawk,'' "Snatch 

 Hawk" (Quelch). 



Adult female. Back, wings, and tail dark lead-grey ; the second 

 to the seventh primary-quills are marked more or less with bright 

 chestnut : all the tail-feathers, except the central pair, which are 

 uniform, have three white bars on the inner web ; head, mantle, 

 and under[iarts slate-grey. 



Total length 340 mm., culmen (including the cere) 21, wing 317, 

 tail 139, tarsus 38, middle toe and claw 35, 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female but smaller. Wing 

 286 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Supenaam River and 

 the male on the Bonasika River. 



Immature. Black above, the feathers tipped with white : head 

 black with white bases and white margins to the feathers becoming 

 dusky slate-colour on the sides of the face and throat ; under- 

 parts white broadly streaked with dark brown. 



