CAM^YLO^TERU^^. 301 



Habits. According to Schoiiiburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 709; this 

 species is generally distributed throughout British Guiana, but is 

 most common in the damp coast-woods, where it frequents the 

 flowering Ravenala and Pha3nacospermum. It is a small but very 

 quarrelsome bird. Its little nest is built of plant-cotton and 

 suspended in a bush between fork-shaped twigs. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch observed this species in Georgetown, and 

 remarks (Timehri (2) v. p. 98) : — '" The Broad-winged Sabre-wings 

 [Campylopterxts largipennis) are equally as uncommon as the 

 Hermits." 



263. Campylopterus hyperythrus. 



EUFOUS- BREASTED SaBRE-WINO. 



Camj)yl Offer US Jtypei-ythrus Cab. in Schomb. Eels. Guian. iii. p. 709, 

 18J:S (BHtish Guiana) ; Gould, Monogr. Trochil. ii. pi. 51, 1852 ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 432 (Roraima) ; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xvi. 

 p. 295, 1892 ; Braboiu-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 110, no. 1055, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, and upper wing-coverts green ; flight- 

 quills brown ; middle tail-feathers bronze-green, the outer feathers 

 rufous like the entire under surface ; some of the under wing- 

 coverts green. 



Total length 119 mm., culmen 19, wing GG. tail 45. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male in plumage, but differs 

 in the absence of the swollen shafts of the outer primary-quills. 

 Wing 67 mm. 



The male and female from which the descriptions are taken were 

 collected l)y Mr. Mc(/onnelI on Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Bi'eeding-seasoyi. Unknown. 



j^est. Unrecorded. 



J^gcfs. Undescribed. 



Range. Confined to British Guiana : Mount Roraima, Bartica 

 (McConnell colledlon) ; Mount Roraima, 6000 ft. (White!//). 



Ilahits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 709) that 

 during the whole of his travels in British Guiana he only 

 obtained one specimen, which was procured at the Roraima 

 Mountains at an altitude of 6000 feet. It was hovering about 

 some mimosa bushes. He did not find its nest. The "Arekunas'^ 

 call ir Tukui, whicli is the name usually a| plied by them to 

 Hnmmin(7-bird'«!. 



