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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



The young male in its first plumage is evidently like the 

 female, as tliere is an example from the Ituribisi River that 

 shows the remains of rufous on the head, back, wings, sides of 

 face, and throat. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Makauria River, 

 Anarica River, Arawai River, Arwye Creek. 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Venezuela. 



Habits. Schomburgk mentions (Reis. Guian. iii. p. &%'i) that this 

 bird frequents the woods near the coast, where it hops about in 

 the low bushes and on the ground in search of food. 



The following note is quoted from Beebe (Our Search for a 

 Wilderness, p. 324): — "I thoroughly enjoyed this new aspect of 

 the jungle world. As usual small birds were fairly abundant, 

 of which apparently 99 per cent, were Antbirds or Woodhewcrs. 

 The most common Antbird in the valleys was the Scaly-backed, 

 slate-coloured except for the feathers of the back, wings, and tail, 

 which were black ti[)ped with white. At one place two dozen of 

 these little birds must have been in sight, uttering sharp, snapping 

 calls, and clinging, like Marsh- Wrens, to upright stems in the 

 underbrush." 



Genus HYPOCNEMOIDES Bangs & Penard. 



ITypocnemoides Bangs & Penard, Bull. Mus. Harv. Coll. Ixii, p 69, 

 April 1918. Type H. melanopogon (Sclater). 





Fig. 32. — Sypocnemoides melanopogon. 



