374 BIRDS or BRITISH guiaka. 



The male described is in the British Museum^ and was collected 

 by AVhitely at Mount Roraima, 3500 £t., on April 11th, 1883, and 

 the female on the Kamarang River^ January 25th, 1882 — Salvin- 

 Godman collection. 



Breeding-season . Un known . 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eoffs. Undescribed. 



Range. Confined to British Gniiina : Kamarang River, Mount 

 Roraima, Merume Mountains {W/iitcli/). 



Habits. Unrecoided. 



Genus CYPSELOIDES Strenh. 



Cypseloicles Streubel, Isis, 1848, p. 3CG. Tvpe C.fitmigatus Strcub. 



In this genus the tail is scarcely stiffened, the shafts of the 

 feathers only very slightly spined, and the })lumage is almost 

 uniform. 



A. Throat and collar on the hind-neck bright 



rufous in ctmti'ast Avith the rest of tlie 



plumage, which is black C. rnfilus, p. 374. 



B. Throat and entire hind-neck black like the 



rest of the plvonage C. n if/ra, p. 375. 



248. Cypseloides rutilus. 



Shining Swift. 



Hirundo rMi'?7« Yieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 528, 1817 (Guiana). 

 Clicetnra rittiht Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 437 ('Menime Mts.). 

 Ci/j)srIoi(Ies rntilus Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 493, 1892; 

 Braboxxrne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 103, no. 982, 1912. 



Adxdt male. Crown of head, entire back, wings, and tail black, 

 as are also the abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 

 coverts ; throat, fore-ueck, sides of face, and a collar on the 

 hind-neck bright rufous. 



Total length 132 mm., culmen 5, wing 135, tail 58^ tarsus 13. 



This species is not represented in the McConuell collection, and 

 the description of the male is taken from the single specimen in the 

 British Museum which was collected by AVhitely at the Merume 

 Mountains on the 27th of July, 1881 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



