130 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



433. Campylorhaniplius procurvoides. 

 Guiana Wood hewer. 



Xiphorhynchus 2y^'ocurvoides Lafr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2) ii. p. 376, 



1852 (Cayenne). 

 Jiiijpliorliynclms trochilirostris (nee Licht.) Cab. in Scliomb. Reis. Guian. 



iii. p. 690, 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 422 (Bartica Grove, Cama- 



cusa) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 159 (part), 1890 (Bartica 



Grove, Camacusa, Mazai'uni River). 

 Campylorhamphns 2J>'ocnrvoides Brabovirne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 256, no. 2605, 1912. 



Adult. Upper back and upper Aving-coverts uniform rust- 

 brow^n ; lower back, ruuij), and upper tail-coverts rufous ; wings 

 and tail rufous-chestnut with a tinge of bronze-brown on the 

 outer aspect of the priuuiry-quills, which are more or less brown 

 at the tips ; crown of head and nape rather darker than the 

 upper back with small pale shaft-lines to the feathers, the sho^t 

 feathers on the cheeks and those surrounding the eye brown 

 tipped with whitish ; hinder face and ear-coverts brown with 

 whitish shaft-streaks ; under surface of body umber-brown 

 with pale shaft-lines to the feathers, more strongly pronounced 

 on the throat where they are whiter in colour and rounded in 

 form, becoming less pronounced on the breast and upper abdomen 

 and almost obsolete on the vent and under tail-coverts, where 

 they take the form of elongated narrow streaks ; under w-ing- 

 coverts and axillaries cinnamon-rufous, like the inner quill-lining ; 

 outer quill-lining pale brown ; lower aspect of tail dull rufous. 



Total length 228 mm., exposed culmen 54, wing 95, tail 82, 

 tarsus 18. 



The bird described was collected by Mr. McConnell on the 

 Lower Mazaruni River in 1898. 



Breeding- season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Guiana. Lower Mazaruni River, Ituribisi 

 River, Supenaam River, Bonasika River, Makauria River, Abary 

 River, Anarica River (McConnell collection) ; Bartica, Kamakusa 

 (Whitely) ; Mazaruni (^Quelch). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam {Penard)\ North Brazil. 



Habits. U^nrecorded in British Guiana. 



