66 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Total length 122 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing G7, tail 43, 

 tarsus 25. 



The description is taken from an example collected on the 

 Ituribisi River in February 1907. 



Adult female. Differs entirely from the adult male in being 

 rust-brown above with buffj'-white spots at the tips of the upper 

 wing-coverts ; fore part of head bright rufous, paler and inclining 

 to buff on the sides of the crown ; lores and sides of face black ; 

 under surface for the most part white. Wing 67 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Supenaam River in 

 1910. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 Elver, Supenaam River, Bartica, Kamakabra River, Abary River, 

 Arawai River, Arwye Creek (McConnell collection) ; Bartica, 

 Takutu River ( Whitehj). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam ( Penard), Venezuela, Northern 

 and Western Brazil, East Bolivia. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 685) 

 tliis species also frequents the woods near the coast and lives in 

 the dense bushes, and hops about on the ground in search of food. 



Genus DICHROPOGON Chubb. 



Dichropogon Chubb, Ann. f& Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ii. p. 124, 1918. 

 Tyjje I), pcecilonota (Cab.). 



Fig. 31. — Dichropogon pcecilonota. 



The species which I have separated generically had previously 

 been associated with Hypocnemis of Cabanis, but it .differs 



