468 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains (McConnell 

 collection) ; Golden Hill {Schomhxn^gk). 



Extralimital Range. Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia. 



Habits. Schomburgk remarks (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 717, no. 235) 

 that the habits of this bird are the same as those of G. viridicauda 

 ( = G. galhida, p. ^66), only it seems to prefer the dense and shaded 

 parts of the woods. He found it rather numerous in the vicinity 

 of " Golden Hill." The " Macusis'' call it Kiijei and the " Are- 

 kunas " Pieima. 



321. Galbula leucogaster. 



AVhite-bellied Jacamar. 



Galhula leucogaster Yieill. X. Diet. d'Hist. Xat. xvi. p. 414, 1817 

 (Gruiana) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 1(52. no. 1.595, 

 1912. 



Galbida leucogastrn Salvin, Ibis, 18S6, p. 62 (Menime Mts.) ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xix. p. 170, 1891 (Demerara;. 



Galbula albiveiiter Cab. in Schornb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 717, 1848. 



Adult male. Back deep copper-bronze, duller and inclining to 

 green on the wings and upper tail-coverts ; sides of face, top of 

 head, and tail steel-blue with a green reflection on the head ; 

 outer tail-feathers brown edged with white; inner webs of primary 

 and secondary quills edged wdth white towards the base ; chin 

 blackish, followed by a white patch on the throat ; breast very 

 similar to the back ; abdomen, under tail-coverts, under wing- 

 coverts, and inner edge of quills below white. 



Total length l'J7 mm., culmen 40, wing 70, tail 89, tarsus 10. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male only in having the 

 throat buff instead of white. Wing 71 mm. 



Tbe female from which the description is taken is in the 

 British Museum, and was collected by Whitely at the Merume 

 Mountains in June 1881 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Berbice River (McConnell collection) ; 

 Merume Mountains ( Whitely). 



