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tilt! l)iril> can live to arrive at maturity. We have seen a voniig 

 Kiskadee so infested with these disgusting larva? that it was unable 

 to close its wings, while its body was distorted to such an extent 

 as to be hardly recognizable. The Kiskadee is the conimouest 



Tyrant found in the Colony.'" 



483. Pitang-us lictor. 



LiCHTEKSTETX's FLYCATCHER. 



Lanius lictor Licht. Yerz. Doubl. p. 49, 1S23 (Para). 



S'-iurophagus lictor Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 698, 1848. 



Fitangus lictor Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 296 (Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 178, 18&S (Bartica Grove) ; Quelch, 

 Timelui (2) v. p. 89, 1891 (Georgetown); Beebe, in- Search for 

 a Wilderness, p. 116, 1910 (Georgetown), p. 207 (Ai-emu River), 

 p. 357 (nesting) j Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 293, 

 no. 2996, 1912. 



Adult female. Head and sides of the face black with a coronal 

 patch of orano^e and white coloured feathers : base of forehead 

 and lores whitish with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; a broad 

 line of white over each eye along the sides of the crown and 

 uniting on the nape; entire back, scapulars, and wings smoke- 

 brown with a slioht ureenish tinoe : basrard-wino- and lu'imarv- 

 coverts uniform brown ; flight-quills dark brown edged with ruFous 

 on the outer webs and much more broadly with cinnamon- 

 rufous on the inner ones ; upper tail-coverts slightly fringed 

 with rufous ; tail-feathers dark brown more or less fringed with 

 rufous ; chin and throat white; remainder of under surface pale 

 yellow including the breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, 

 and under wing-coverts ; under surface of quills broadly edged 

 with oinnamon-ruf'ous ; lower aspect of tail pale brown with 

 paler edgings to the middle feathers. 



Total length 166 mm., exposed culmen 19, wing 88, t; il 69, 

 tarsns 19. 



The feniale from which the description is taken was collected 

 at the Takutu Mountain^ in 1908. 



Adnlt male. >^imil;tr to adidt female but slightly larger. ^\ ing 

 93 mm. 



BveediiKj-season. Uidciiown in British Guiana. 



Sest. Umecordt'd in British Guiana. 



Eyys. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Jlanyein liritisk (iniana. Lpper Takutu Mountains (McConiitll 



