MYRMOPHILA. 33 



the head, back, inner secondaries, tail, breast, abdomen, sides of 

 body, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts ; a white tuft on 

 the shoulder of the wing ; upper wing-coverts black tipped with 

 w^hite ; primary and secondary quills dark brown with pale edges 

 on the inner webs, slate-blue on the outer webs, and narrowly 

 edged with white at the tips of the secondaries; inner webs of 

 tail-feathers blackish and narrowly margined wdth white at the 

 tips ; chin and throat-patch deep black. 



Total length 103 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 66, tail 11, 

 tarsus 16. 



Adult female. Differs entirely from the male in being fulvous- 

 brown above and inclining to rufous on the wings ; sides of the 

 face, throat, and middle of the breast ochreous-buff ; sides of the 

 breast, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts fulvous ; middle 

 of abdomen greyis^h white. Wing 61 mm. 



The types of both male and female are in the McConnell 

 collection and were collected on the Ituribisi River in February 

 1907. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Makauria River, Anarica River (^McConnell collection) ; Bartica, 

 Kamakusa (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam [Penard). 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana, 



This bird is named iu honour of Mrs. McConnell's second 

 surviving son. 



309. Myrmophila behni. 

 Behn's Ant-bird. 



MyrmotTieritla hehni Berl. & Leverk. Ornis, vi. p. 2o, pi. i. fig. 2, ISOO 



(S. Fe de Bogota) ; Brabounie & CIuiIjI), B. S. Amor. i. p. 199, no. 



1992, 1912. 

 MyrmotheruJu unicolor (nee Meiictr.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. '12G (Bartica 



Grove, Caniaeusa, Ivoiaiina, 8.j()0 ft.). 

 Mynnothcrula inoniata Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 243, 1R90 



(Camacusa, Koraiina, Bartica (jSrove). 



Adult male. General colour above, including the crown of the 

 head, sides of the laco, entire liack. wings, ajid tail, slale-bliie ; 

 VOL. II. D 



