vExiLTonyis-. — CKT.EUS 489 



BenJrolates eassini Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit Mus. xviii. p. 3G0, 1S90 

 (Bartica Grove, Eoraima, Meruine Mts., Takutu Kiver). 



Teniliornis eassini Bra bourne & Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 174, no. 1731, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Back and wings gokleu olive, with paler sagittate 

 sljat't-lines to the feathers of the median u{)per wing-coverts ; 

 quills dark brown on the inner webs and notched with white ; tail- 

 feathers brown, irregulaily marked with paler brown and notched 

 with white on the inner webs ; a narrow collar of golden yellow 

 on the hind-neck ; the feathers on the crown and nape black, 

 tipped with red : ear-coverts pale brown ; entire under surface 

 dark brown, or blackish, barred with white. 



Total length 166 mm., culmen 21, wing 91. tail f/d. tarsus 13. 



We do not know the exact locality, in British Guiana, of the 

 male from which the description is taken. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but differs in the absence of 

 the red ti))s to the feathers on the head, and in having pale 

 rounded spots on the median upper wing-coverts. Wing 95 nnn. 



The female described was collected at Bartica. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in Briti-h Guiana. 



^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Uudescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Bartica, Kamakabra 

 River, Abary River {McConnell collection) : Takutu River, Mount 

 Koraima, Merume Mountains, Bartica, Kamarang River ( Wliitel^). 



Extralimital Range. French Guiana, Xorth-east Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus CELEUS Boie. 



Celeus^ie, Isis, 1831, p. 542. Tv]»e C.JJavescens (Gmel.). 



This genns is distinguished by having the nostrils enlirely 

 exposed and the nasal aperture rounded. 



Key to the Species. 



A. I.«irger, wing more than 120 nnn. ; up|)er 



surface almost uniform, not barred C. Jitlh/ioi/ri, ]>. 4;»(l. 



H: Smaller, wing less than 120 mm. ; uj>]X'r 



jcirts iiartieolonreil. innstly Kih-imI C utuhifiin, p. 1!K>, 



