376 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



250. Reinarda squamata. 

 Forked-tailed Palm-Swift. 



Cypselvs sqnamati/s Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1853, p. 369 



(British Guiana). 

 Claudia sqitamata Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 469, 1892 



(Aunai) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 104, no. 987, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, wings, tail, sides of body, and under 

 wing-coverts dark brown with a steel-green gloss and pale margins 

 to the feathers ; throat, breast, and middle of abdomen silky- 

 white. 



Total length 110 n.m., cnlmen 3, wing 95, tail 55, tansus 9. 



The male described was collected at the Takutu Mountains in 

 1909. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but somewhat larger. 

 "Wing 112 mm. 



Breeding -season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



If est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains {McConnell 

 collection); Annai {Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Bartlett), Northern Brazil, East 

 Peru. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus PANYPTILA Cab. 



Panijptila Cabanis, Archiv fiir Naturg. xiii. p. 345, 1847. Type 

 P. cayennensis (Gmel.). 



This monotypic genus is distinguished by having all the toes 

 directed forward and feathered, but not paired, and the tail 

 deeply forked. 



251. Panyptila cayennensis. 



Cayenne Swift. 



Jlirvndo cayennensis Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1024, 1789 (Cayenne). 



Fanyptila cayennensis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 436 (Meruine Mts.) ; 

 Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 461, 1892 ; Beebe, Our Search 

 for a Wilderness, pp. 143, 176, 1910 (Morawhanna, Hoorie) ; 

 Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 104, no. 988, 1912. 



Adult female. General colour above and below velvety-black ; 

 secondary and inner primary-quills edged with whitish : throat. 



