.'JoO BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



entire under surEace deep chestnut, paler on the tliroat and sides 

 o£ the neck ; loral streak chestnut. '• Bill blackish ; feet red." 



Total length 233 mm., culmen 47. Aving 9<S, tail 63. 



Adult female. Differs from the a'lult male in having a green 

 hand across the chest, the feathers being barred and edged with 

 white. Wing 96 mm. 



The male described was collected on the Abary River and the 

 female on the Supenaam River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range hi British Guiana. Supenaam River, Bartica, Waremia 

 River, Arawai River, Kamakabra River, Abary River, Anarica 

 River (McC<mneU collection) : Kainakusa, Bartica ( Widteh/) ; 

 Detnerara (British Museum). 



Extralimital Range. Eastern Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Central 

 America to Nicaragua. 



IJulnts. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 704) 

 the mode of life and habits of this bird are the same as those of 

 C. torquata, antea p. 345. Tiie " Macusis " and the " Arekunas" 

 call it Sakaika. 



226. CMoroceryle aenea. 

 Pygmy Kingfisher. 



Alcedofenea Pall, in Vroeg's Cat. rais. d'Ois. Adumbrat. p. 1, no. 54, 



17G4 (Surinam). 

 Aleedo superciUosa Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 704, 1S4S. 

 Ceryle sttpercil/osa Salvin, Ibis, 18S6, p. 60 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa) ; 



W. L. Selater. Ibis. 1SS7, p. 318 (Miccasseema, Pomeroon River) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. :Mus. xvii. p. 138, 1892 (Demerara River). 

 Ceryle asnea Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Araer. i. p 9o, no. 902, 1912. 

 Chloroceryle cB/iea Miller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Xat. Hist. xxxi. p. 310, 



1912. 



Adult male. Upper surface glossy green with white bases to 

 the feathers of the back and scapulars and white spots on the inner 

 webs of the flight-quills ^ind tail-feathers ; loral streak and under 

 surface rich chestnut, paler on the throat and under wing-coverts j 

 a patch of green on each side of the breast like the back ; middle 

 of abdomen and under tail-coverts white. " Bill black, the basal 

 portion o£ the lower mandible yellow: feet reddish; eye dark 

 brown. 



