474 r.IRPS OF BRITISH C-riAVA. 



Adult Dujle. (-rown of head uniform lilnck; back, wing?, tail, 

 under wiug-coverts, and a broad band across the breast black, 

 fringed with white at the tips of the feathers ; fianks black, the 

 feathers Ijarred and tipped with white : base of forehead, a collar 

 round the hind-ueck, ear-coverts, throat, fore-neck, middle of 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts white. 



Total length 231 mm., culmen 36. wing 105. tail 81, tarsus 21. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Ituribisi River. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 114 mm. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the white on the 

 under surface pervaded with buff and the feathers on the lower 

 back and wingfs ed^ed with buff. 



Breedina-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British (.Tuiana. 



]^<jgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



jRaupe in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bonasika River, Anarika River, Great Fails Demerara River 

 {McConnell collection) ; Canuku ^lountnms (Schomburok) ; Mount 

 Roraima. Merume Mountains, Kamakusa (Whitel>/). 



Ed-tralimital Ranae. Cayenne {Gmelin), Northern Brazil. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 719) this 

 bird is rare in British Guiana. He only met with a few indi- 

 viduals in the Canuku Mountains. 



327. Bucco tectus. 



Cayenne Puff-bird. 



Bucco tectns Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 43, 1783 (Cayenne) ; Salvin, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 62 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Merume Mts.) ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 185, 1891 ; Brabourae & Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 164, no. 1615, 1912. 



Adult male. Upper surface, sides of face, a broad band across 

 the fore-neck, and sides of the body black, with white spots on 

 the fore part of the head : loral streak and a line behind the 

 eye white ; tips of the scapulars white, and large white spots 

 on the tail-feathers ; throat and middle of abdomen white, the 

 feathers on the sides of the abdomen particoloured, black and 

 white. 



Total length lf»0 mm., culmen 22, wing 75, tail 56, tarsus 16. 



