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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Rorainia, Twek-quay, 

 Kamarang River {Whiteli/). 

 Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genns DRYMOPHILA Such. 

 Bnjmophila Such, Zool. Jom-n. i. p. 559, 1824'. Tvi» D. ferruginea 

 (Licht., nee Mull.)- 



mm 



Fig. 19. — Drymopliila grisea. 



The members of this genus have slender bills, short wings, and 

 long tails. The exposed culmen is about three-fourths the length 

 of the tarsus, the wing about one-tenth longer than the tail, and 

 the tarsus nearly half the length of the tail. This genus strongly 

 resembles il/^>'mojL'a(/i5 of Uidgway. Coloration: male and female 

 different. 



374. Drymophila grisea. 

 Cayenne Ant-Wren. 



Turdus griscus Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 39, 1783 (Cayenne). 

 Formicivora grisea Cab. in Schomb. lieis. Guian.'iii. p. G87, 184S ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 426 (Merurne Mts.) ; Selater, Cat. E. Brit. 



Mus. XV. p. 249, 1890 (Quonga) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. 



i. p. 200, no. 2009, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper tail- 

 coverts dusky greyish brown with dark slate-grey bases to the 

 feathers ; upper wing-coverts black with white tips to the feathers, 

 including the bastard-wing and j)rimary-coverts ; primary and 



