476 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIAN'A. 



a huli' collar, which suiTounds the neck, and the feathers of the 

 upper surface more profusely edged with buff. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



j^est. Unrecorded in British Guiann. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 River, Supenaam Kiver. Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika 

 River, Abary River, Ireng River, Arwyo River, Great Falls 

 Demerara River, Arawai River (McConnell collection) ; Merume 

 Mountains, Kamakusa, Kamarang River, Annai [Wldtehj). 



Ext ralirnital Range. Cayenne (Gmelin), North Brazil. 



Habits. This bird, according to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 719), is generally distributed throughout British Guiana. It 

 is usually found in dense woods, and, as a rule, singly, rarely in 

 pairs, sitting in a drowsy manner on a low branch watching for 

 passing insects. It is not shy. and remains on its perch until one 

 is within about six or eight paces, when it flies a short distance 

 and settles again in a similar manner. The food consists of insects. 

 The " Macusis " call it Kaicari. 



Genus MALACOPTILA Gray. 

 Malacoptila Gray, List Gen. B. p. 13, 1841. Type JLfi>sca (Gmel.)- 



This genus is distinguished by the thinner bill, which is curved 

 towards the tip but scarcely hooked, the long rictai bristles, and 

 the streaked plumage. 



329, Malacoptila fusca. 

 White-breasted Puff-bird. 



Buccofiiscus Grael. Syst, Xat. i. p. 408, 1788 (Cayenne). 



Malacoptila fusca Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 198, 1891 (Deme- 

 rara River; ; Brabourne & Chubl), B, S. Amer. i. p. 165, no. 1631, 

 1912, 



Advlt female. General colour smoky-brown, with buff or white 

 shaft-streaks to the feathers of the head, back, wings, and breast ; 

 outer webs of some of the outer primary-quills incised towards 

 the tips ; inner webs of primary and secondary quills edged with 

 buflf towards the base ; a spot of white in front of the eye, another 

 at the base of the lower mandible, also a white patch on the fore- 

 neck ; abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white ; under wing- 

 coverts and quill-lining Iniff. 



