HYLCirF.ZL'J^. 85 



GraUana macv.laria Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 430 (Bartica Grove, Cama- 

 cusa. Merimie Mts., Atapm-ow Eiver ) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 XV. p. 324, 1890 (Bartica Grove, Merume Mts., Camacusa, Atapu- 

 row Kiver) ; Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 219, no. 220c), 

 1912. 



Sylopezii.s mactdaria macconnelli Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 xxxviii. p. 86, July 25, 1918. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown including the 

 back, wings, and tail : upper wing-covert.s tipped with rufous ; 

 outer edge o£ bastard-wing, outer margin o£ outer primary, and 

 the basal portion of the quills rufous, inner portion of bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and inner webs of quills dark brown ; 

 crown of head and nape slate-grey ; base of forehead with 

 minute dark tips to the feathers ; a ring of short rufous feathers 

 encircling the eye ; ear-coverts brown with pale streaks ; a dark 

 streak from the gape across the face to below the ear-coverts, 

 another one on the sides of the chin enclosing a white line 

 between them ; chin, throat, breast, and middle of abdomen 

 white, the feathers margined with black ; sides of bodv and 

 under tail-coverts fulvous ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 

 quill-lining at the base rufous, remainder of the quill below 

 brown . 



Total length 132 mm., exposed culmen 20, wing %^, tail 27, 

 tarsus 34. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Ituribisi River in August 1909. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. " Iris dark brown ; 

 legs, toes, and claws purplish flesh-colour" (^H. Wldtely). 

 AVing 79 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Cxuiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutn Mountains. Tturil>isi 

 Kiver, Makanria llivor, Mazaruni River [McConneU collection) ; 

 j\ItM-ume ^Mountains, Kainarang River, Kamakusa, Bartica 

 {miittlg). 



E.rtralimital liange. Cayenne (JJrit. Mus.). East Peru. 



IJuVits. Schomburgk states (Iteis. Guian. iii. p. (d'6h) tliat Ik* 

 met with this bird in tlie dense woods on the Pomerooii River, 

 wliere it lives chiefly on the ground. Its nidifioatioii wa^ 

 unknown to him. Its food ajjpeared to consist of insects only. 



