196 BIllUS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Geinis MYIOZETETES Scl. 



Myiozetetes Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 46. Type M. cayennntsis 

 (Linn.). 



Fig. S2. — Myiozetetes cayennensis. 



The type of this genus has the head crested and the feathers 

 on the middle of the crown are orange-yellow. The rictal bristles 

 are numerous but feebly developed. The bill is more or less 

 depressed, the width at the base being about equal to three- 

 fourths the length of the exposed culmen, the tip) of the upper 

 mandible is sharply hooked and the nostrils are covered with 

 black bristles. The wing is roundeJ, the second, third, and 

 fourth primaries longest and the first about equal in length to 

 the seventh. The tail is square at the tip, the feathers rather 

 vvide and about three-fourths the length of the wing. The tarsus 

 about one-fourth longer than the middle toe and claw. Colora- 

 tion : male and female similar. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Smaller, wing less tlian 90 mm. ; a broad 

 white superciliary line ; coronal patch 



orange-red; sides efface black Al. cayennensis, p. 196. 



b. Larger, wing more than 90 mm.; no super- 

 ciliary streak ; coronal patch yellow ; sides 



of face grey M. sulphureus, p. 198. 



480. Myiozetetes cayennensis. 



Cayenne Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa cayennensis Linn. Syst. !Nat. i. p. 327, 1766 (Cayenne). 

 Elcenea cayennensis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 1848. 



