o40 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Adult male. Back, wings, and tail green, the last fringed with 

 buff at the tip ; lateral upper tail-coverts margined with orange ; 

 flight-quills black with green on the outer margins ; head black, 

 with a patch of green in front and below the eye ; sides of face, chin, 

 throat, and a collar round the hind-neck pale orange ; breast and 

 abdomen pale buff ; sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 bright orange; under wing-coverts green with a few golden-yellow 

 feathers intermixed. " Bill horn-black ; feet and naked skin round 

 the eyes black ; iris with an inner ring brown and an outer one 

 red."" 



Total length 238 mm., culmen 23, wing 145, tail 71, tarsus 17. 

 The male described was collected on the Abary River in Sep- 

 tember liiOO. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult made. Wing 140 mm. 

 Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Kest. "Nests in holes high up the trunks of trees" (C 

 A. lAoyd). 



Eggs. " We often tried to get at the eggs but could never 

 succeed" (C A. Llogd). 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi Eiver, Bartica, Bonasika 

 River, Makauria River, Abary River, Cako River (^McConnell 

 collection); Bartica, Kamakusa, Merume Mountains {Whitely); 

 Mazaruni and Puruni Rivers (C. A. Llogd). 

 E.vtralimital Range. Venezuela, North Brazil. 

 Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 723) that this 

 bird lives in flocks in the woods, but is one of the rarer species. 

 The " Macusis " call it Sackuih and the " Warraus" Tischih. 



Mr. C. A. Lloyd remarks as follows (Timehri (2) ix. p. 273): — 

 " Caica melanocepJiala is one of our handsome little Parrots that 

 takes readily to domestication, becoming xery affectionate, allowing 

 itself to be handled and petted without the slightest resentment. 

 It is particularly plentiful on the Mazaruni and Puruni Rivers, 

 where it nests in holes high up the trunks of trees. We have 

 often tried to get at the eggs, but could never succeed." 



Order CORACIIFORMES. 

 Family STEATORNITHID.E. 



This family consists of one genus and one species only which 

 has the apjiearance of a Goatsucker. The osteological characters. 



