4-42 BIRDS OF BRITISH Gl'IAS'A. 



Aduh male. General colour pale cliestiuit, including tlie head, 

 back, wings, tail, throat, and breast, somewhat darker on the tail 

 and paler on the throat ; flight-feathers brown at the tips ; tail- 

 feathers tipped with white inclining to black on the portion 

 adjoining the white ; lower aspect of tail chestnut and black ; 

 abdomen buff : thighs, vent, and under tnil-coverts dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts pale cinnamon. 



Total lenoth 257 mm., culmen 11, w'lnrr lOG, tail 146, tarsus 27. 



The male described was collected on the Bonasika River. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Wing 97 mm. " Eves 

 red ; bill greenish yellow ; legs and toes greenish brown ; claws 

 black" (H. Whiteiii). 



The description of the female is taken from an example in the 

 British Museum collected bv Whitely on the Takutu River, 

 January 3rd, 1888 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



There is a specimen from the Abary River which, I think, must 

 be in the immature plumage. It is much duller and inclining to 

 dusky above and below. Some of the tail-feathers lack the white 

 tips. 



Breeding-season . Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



f^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Ituribisi River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River. Makauria River, Abary River {^McCon- 

 nell collection) : Georgetown {Beehe). 



Ej-tralimital Range. Cayenne (^Illiger), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian, iii. p. 714) that the 

 mode of life and distribution of this species are the same as those 

 of P. hrach/pterus { = P. melanogaster). 



Genus NEOMORPHUS Gloger. 



Xeomnrphns Gloger, in Froriep's Xotizen, xvi. p. 278, 1827. Type 

 N. geoffroyi (Temm.). 



In this genus the primary-quills do not exceed the secondaries 

 in length ; culmen much compressed towards the bnse ; feathers 

 of the forehead encroach on the membrane that cover the nostrils, 

 which assume the form of horizontal slits. 



