THAKTHORNIS. 387 



The bird Je3cribeJ was collected on the Warema River, 



Accordino; to Dr. Hartert the sexes are alike. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Xest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J'^f/gs. Uudesciibed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Wareina River, Bonasika River 

 [McConnell collection) ; Georgetown [Qvelch). 



E.vtralimital Range. Trinidad. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian, iii. p. 709) 

 the favourite haunts of this bird are the outskirts of the woods, 

 where he often saw it hover round the flowering plants near the 

 bunks of the rivers. He did not find its nest. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch, who observed this bird in Georgetown, 

 remarks (Timehri (2) v. p. 98) : — "This species may be obtained 

 in or around the town, though it is only seen at r.ire intervals 

 iibout the trees and the flowering phmts on the outskirts of the 

 city." 



2G0. Phaethornis ruber. 



Red-vented Hermit. 



TrocTiilus ruler Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. i. p. 121. 1758 (Surinam). 

 Trochihts pygmceus Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 708, 18-18. 

 Pygmornis pygmceits Salvin, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 285, 1892. 

 Phaetliornis ruber Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 109, no. 103S, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Head, mantle, upper back, and upper wing-coverts 

 coppery bronze ; flight-quills brown ; lower back and u})per 

 tail-coverts chestnut ; tail-feathers bronze lipped with rufous ; a 

 line over the eye, chin, throat, and under surface rufous ; a tuft 

 of white feathers on the lower flanks which have dark bases ; ear- 

 coverts and a spot on the middle of the breast blackish. 



Total length 84 mm., culmen 25, wing 32, tail 29. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 34 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, 

 and the descriptions of the male and female are taken from spcci- 

 jnensin the British Museum collected at Peru — Balston collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



AV5<. Built of plant-cotton, fairly deep, and suspended between 

 two leaves of the tuga-branches (Schomburgk). 



Eggs. White (Schomburgk). 



Range in British Guiana, l^nrccordod. 



K.fl ndimilal Range. Surinam (Linne). Brazil, Eastern Bolivia. 



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