FORMICARIUS. — CHAM^ZA. 



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Extralimital Range. Surinam {Fenard), Cayenne {British 

 Museum) . 



Habits. Schombnrgk, on whose collection this species was 

 founded, remarks (Eeis. Gnian. iii, p. 686) that he only met with 

 it in the vicinity of the Roraima Mountains at an altitude of 

 4000 feet, where it frequents the lower bush. The " Arekunas " 

 call it Pairika. 



Genus CHAM^ZA Vig. 



CJiamceza Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 395, 1825. Type O Irevicnuda 

 (VieilL). 





Fig. 30. — CJiamceza brevicauda. 



Tlie species on which this genus was founded is more or less 

 Thrusli-like in appearance. The bill is small in proportion to the 

 general size o£ the bird. The wing is almost square, the inner 

 secondaries being only about 10 mm. shorter than the longest 

 j)rimarics, tin; lliird, fourth, and fil'lh primaries longest and ecpial, 

 the second shorter than the sixth but lonfrer than the seventh. 



