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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Gxdana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Great Falls Demerara River, Arawai River {McConnell collection) ; 

 Bartica, Kaniakusa, Quonga River (Whitelg). 



EA'tralimital Range. Surinam (Bartlett, Penard). 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus CERCOMACRA Scl. 



Cercomacra Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 244. "Type C. cceridescens Sclater 

 (nee Vieill.) = C. brasiliana Hellmaji*, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 289, 1905. 



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Fisr. 22. — Cercomacra brasiliana. 



The present genus is distinguished chiefly by the large and 

 graduated tail, which exceeds the length of the wing by nearly 

 one-fourth. It possesses numerous stiffened black bristles on the 

 fore part of the head. The bill is hooked at the tip and propor- 

 tionally long, the exposed portion of the culmen being about 



