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head, enrire l)aclc, scapulars, and lesser upper wino-eoverts ; 

 median and oreater coverts dark brown margined with bronze- 

 o-reen like the primary-coverts ; outer aspect of flioht-qnills also 

 bronze-green, inner webs dark brown edged with bnflf ; tail bronze- 

 gri'eM ; sides of face, throat, sides of neck, and sides of breast dull 

 gri'en but ])aler than the back ; remainder of the under surlaee 

 oehreous more or less tinged with green ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts cinnamon-rui'ous ; under surface of quills brown 

 with rufous edgings; lower aspect of tail bronze-brown. 



Total length ll'J nun., exposed culnien 11, wing G7, tail 48, 

 tarsus 17. 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Aiuirica River in 1913. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Winor Qo mm. 



JJreedi)i(/-season. March (Beehe). 



JS^est. For description of nest, see Beebe infra. 



Eags. For descrijjtion of eggs, see Beel)e infra. 



Hange in British Guiana. Ituribisi liiver, Supenaam I\iver, 

 Bartica, Kamakabra Biver, Bonasika Biver, Anarica River, Arwve 

 (,'reek, Great Falls Demerara River, Arawai River [McConnidl 

 collection) ; Kamakusa, Bartica ( Whiteh/). 



K.i'tralindtal Range. Surinam (Penard), Cayenne. 



Jfahits. The following notes have been copied from Beebe 

 ( Tro})ical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 223 et seq.): — "The 

 ne>t of this S]:>ecies is really a du[)licate of other forest flycatcher 

 Jiangiiests — ColojAerus, lihijnchocijrhis, and prubaldy many others 

 whose nests are unknown. Hanging from snuill vines in the 

 densest forest, usually close to the ground, it looked like some 

 large, mossy, cornucopia-shaped fruit, fastened, pear-like, by its 

 lifiU end. The entjance, near the bottom and to one side, was 

 jiidileu from sight of the casual olisiMver by overhanging tendiils 

 of living moss which acted (,'ffectiv<dy as a curtain. Upon enter- 

 ing its home the bird founil itself in a narrow, upward slantinc- 

 tumiel that led to a hole in the roof of the cave in which rested 

 the eggs. It was necessary for her to push through this opening 

 and to drop gently, with the utmost care, upon the eggs Ijelow. 

 The parent was tuen in a tiny cup of a room whose walls were 

 thickly lined with soft haii', Ixicked by fine shreds of jungle bark. 



'' The Ijody of the nest was composed entirely of living tree moss 

 skilfully woven together to form a waterjiroof mass. Scattered 



