4i0 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Fiaya caycina Salvin, Ibis, 188G, p. 64 (Camacusa, Bartica Grove. 

 Roraima) ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 373, 1891 (Bartica 

 Grove, Camacusa) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 131, 

 1910 (Georgetown) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 151, 

 no. 1481, 1912. 



Adult. General colour above chestnut including the head, back, 

 wings, and tail, the last tipped with white, the dividing portion 

 inclining to black ; chin, throat, fore-neck, and quill-lining pale 

 cinnamon; breast, abdomen, and under wing-coverts ash-grey; 

 under tail-coverts and lower aspect of tail black, the latter tipped 

 with white. 



Total length 438 mm., culmen 2^, wing 149, tail 270, tarsus 34. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Supenaam River. 



We have exainined a series of specimens, both male and female, 

 in the British Museum, and there does not seem to be any apparent 

 difference between the male and female either in plumage or in 

 measurements. 



A juvenile example from the Tturibisi River still retains the 

 minute white points to the tips of the feathers on the head and 

 l)ack, and the sheaths on the feathers below the eyes. The tail- 

 feathers, which have only just begun to grow, are for the most 

 part white and look quite conspicuous. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana, 



JS^est. It builds its nest in a thick bush [Schomburgk) . 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Mange in British Guiana. Up[)er Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 River, Supenaam River, Abary River [McConnell collection) ; 

 Bartica, Kamakusa {WJiiteh/). 



K-vtralimital Range. North Brazil, Venezuela. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 713) that this 

 bird is distributed all over British Guiana and is found in the 

 Avoods, as also on the outskirts of woods, always in pairs and 

 making itself " important " and conspicuous by uttering its loud 

 call — which sounds like "tick-tick-tick." Its long tail is never 

 still. It has a very light and easy flight, and moves about in the 

 tangled trees with the utmost ease and quickness. It builds its 

 nest in a thick bush. The " Warraus " call it Pikamant, and the 

 " Macusis *' Pihe. 



