(iALniLA. AC,7 



white patch on the throat ; remainder of the under surface, 

 including the under wino-coverts, chestnut. 



Total length 210 mm., culmen 42, wing 80, tail 81, tarsus 13. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the tri- 

 angular throat-patch chestnut instead of white. Wing 78 mm. 



The birds from which the descriptions are taken were collected 

 on the Abary River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



E<jgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Abary 

 River (^McConnell collection). 



E.rtraUmital Range. Cayenne (Linne), Venezuela, North and 

 North-east Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 717) that he 

 found this bird scattered — but always in pairs — in the woods and 

 near the banks of the rivers, where it sits on a branch and waits 

 for insects flying past, on which it darts with lightning quickness, 

 and just as quickly returns to its perch again. He did not find 

 its nest. The " Warraus " call it Torong. 



320. Galbula ruficauda. 



RUIOUS-TAILED JaCAMAK, 



Galbula n/Jicauda Cuv. Regn. Anim. i. p. -420, 1S17 (Colombia) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 61 ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 166, 



1891 (British Gruiana) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 161, 



no. 1086, 1912. 

 Galbula leptura Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 717, no. 235, 



1848. 



Adult male. General colour above and a baud across the 

 breast metallic bronze-green with coppery reflections ; middle tail- 

 feathers like the back, the lateral ones cinnamon-rufous : throat 

 white ; abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts 

 chestnut. 



Total length 246 mm., culmen GO, wing 78, tail lOtJ, tarsus 7. 



The nuile described was collected at the Takutu Mountains. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult nuile, but dittors in having 

 the throat rufous instead of white. Wing 83 mm. 



Breeding-seasoi. Unknown in liritish (uiiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in l>riti>li (Jniaiia. 



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