SYNALLAXIS. 90 



more rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings chestnut, 

 with more or less brown on the bastartl-wing and primary-coverts 

 and on the apical portion ot" the primary and secondary quills — 

 the first or outermost primary almost entirely brown ; tail chestnut 

 but rather paler than the wings; an obsolete whitish line from the 

 lores to above the eye ; throat, breast, and abdomen white with a 

 tinge of yellowish buff ; sides of the body, under tail-coverts, and 

 under wing-coverts buff ; inner edges of quills below cinnamon, 

 remainder of the under surface of the quills brown; lower aspect 

 of the tail similar to that of the upper surface. 



Total length 140 mm., exposed culmen 14, wing 57, tail 59, 

 tarsus 21. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Abary River in November 1906. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but not quite so dark 

 in plumage and slightly smaller in wing-measurement. Wing 

 54 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



JS^est. " The nest is tunnel-shaped, built of dry pimpler sticks, 

 and exceedingly large for the size of the bird " (//. Lloyd Price). 

 " It builds its cumbersome nest in close proximity to those of 

 wasps" (C. A. Lloyd). 



Eggs. "The eggs are of a dull white" (//. Lloyd Price). "The 

 eggs are dull white and usually four in number" (C. A. Lloyd). 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Bartica, 

 Bonasika River, Abary River, Anarica River (^McConnell collec- 

 tion) ) Annai (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (^Penard), Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 689) that he 

 met with this bird in fairly large numbers in the Canuku Moun- 

 tains, where it frequented the lower dense bushes. 



Mr. H. Lloyd Price writes (Timehri (2) v. p. 64) .-—"Another 

 nest of dry pimpler sticks is that of a small brown bird commonly 

 culled the ' Rutie ' (Synallaxis cinnamomea). The nest is tunnel- 

 shaped, and exceedingly large for the size of the bird, and may be 

 found almost overvwhere. The ciiiis are dull white." 



The following note is quoted from Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri 

 (2) V. pj). 92, 93), who observed this species in Georgetown and 

 remarks; — '' Quite diflercut from the preceding tyrant bird?, but 



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