200 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Pitangiis svlphiratua Salvin, Ibis, ISSo, p. 296 (Bartica Grove) ; 



Sclater, Cat. \^. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 176, 1S8S (Georgetown. Bartic-a 



Grove) ; Llovtl Price, Timehri (2) v. p. 61, 1891 (nest and eggs) ; 



Queleh, t. c. p. 88 (Georgetown) ; C. A. Lloyd, op. oit. (2) xi. p. 4, 



1897 (nest and eggs); Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus. iii. 



p. 200, 1903; Bra bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 293, no. 2992. 



1912. 

 Pitangns sulpliuratus sulplturatus Beebe. Our Search for a Wilderness, 



pp. 112-131 (Georgetown), p. 13o (Hoorie Creek), p. 247 (Aremu 



liiver), p. 392, 1910. 



Adult. Head and sides of the face black with a somewhat 

 concealed orange and white patch in the middle of the crown ; 

 base of forehead white with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; 

 a broad white line over each eye extending along the sides of the 

 crown and joining on the nape : lores and feathers in front of the 

 eve black stiffened shafts only, like the rictal bristles; entire back, 

 scapulars, wings, and tail smoke-brown, darker on the hind-neck 

 where a blackish collar is indicated ; upper wing-coverts slightly 

 edged witii rufous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight- 

 quills blackish brown, the last edged on the outer and, much more 

 broadly, on the inner webs with rufous which is increased in 

 extent on the secondaries ; tail dark broAvn, the feathers niore or 

 less edged with rufous ; chin and throat white w^hich extends on 

 to the sides of the neck ; remainder of the under surface including 

 the breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under 

 wing-coverts rich yellow; flight-quills })elow brown with broad 

 rufous margins; lower aspect of tail brown, the iiiiddle feathers 

 slightly edged with rufous. 



Total length 205 mm., exposed culmen 23, wing 110, tail 80, 

 tarsus 2;'). 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected at 

 Bartica in 1911. 



Breedinci-season. April (Beehe). 



J^est. Built of dry grass, lined with feathers, and very deep; is 

 usually placed in the fork of an outer branch of a small tree, or 

 tall bush near a river (ScJtouiInirc/l:). Is an untidy looking 

 object built of dr}- grasses with an entrance at the side {Lloyd- 

 Price). Builds a large globular nest {C. A. Lloyd). In Bois 

 Immortelle trees (Beebe). 



Eggs. Three in number which are creamy-white, spotted with 

 grey and l)rown, chiefly at the round end (Lloyd- Price). Lays 



