102 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



1890; Brahom-nc A: Chul)l), B. S. Ainev. i. p. 23^, no. 211.J, 1012; 

 Chubh, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxi. p. 39, 1913 (Supenaani Hiver, 

 British Guiana). 



Adult (unsexed). Entire back, npper "wing-coverts, innermost 

 secondaries, and tail rufous-chestnut ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, primary and secondar}' quills dark brown, some of tlie 

 secondaries rufous-chestnut on the outer webs ; crown of head, 

 nape, and sides of neck black with white shaft-lines to the feathers, 

 the white increasing in width on the nape and sides of the neck ; 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat white with dark brown margins to 

 the feathers ; fore-neck and upper breast also white, with black 

 semicircular spots on the margins of the feathers, the wiiitc 

 decreasing and the black increasing on the lower breast and 

 a'idomen ; lower flanks and under tail-coverts black l)arred with 

 white ; under wing-coverts barred or spotted with brown : under 

 surface of quills gre^'ish brown ; lower aspect of tail rufous. 



Total length 197 mm., exposed culmen 25, wing 102, tail 85, 

 tarsus 22. 



The bird described was collected on the Kamakabra River 

 in 1911. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in Britisli Guiana. 



Kggs. Undescribed from British Guiana, 



Range in British Guiana. Su])enaam Iiiver, Kamakabra Iiiver 

 {McConnell collection). 



E.vtraJimital liange. Santarem, Northern Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus AUTOMOLUS Heichenb. 



Automoliis Reichenliach, Handb. sp. Orn. p. 173, lS."i3. Tv]ie A. leiico- 

 phthalmiis (Wied). 



Fig. 14. — Antomolus leucophthahnus. 

 The species on which this genus is based is more or less 



