204 BIRDS OF BRITISH GCIANA. 



collection) ; Bartica ( ^Vhitehj); Georgetown (Qvelcli) ; Aremu 

 River, Georgetown (Beehe). 



E.vtraUmital Range. Brazil, Peru, C^olombia. 



Schomburgk says (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 698) that the habits of 

 this bird are very simihir to those of S. sidplairatvs, but not nearly 

 so aggressive in its manner and more peaceful and, at times, 

 solitary (supra, p. 199.) 



J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 89) observed this sj)ecies in 

 Georgetown and remarks: — "The name kiskadie is applied to 

 several different species, all of which utter the same cry ; but the 

 above large form {Pitangv.s sulfilinratvs) is the commonest of all 

 about the town. A smaller bird [Pltangus lidor) is also very 

 common. Its habits are similar to the larger species." 



The following is taken from Beebe (Our Search for a Wilder- 

 ness, p. 357): — "The big kiskadees were nesting about every 

 hundred yards. This was the tirst time in 'the Colony that we had 

 seen these latter birds nesting away from human habitation, so 

 this open savanna region would'appear to be their natural home, 

 while the other yellow Tyrants frequent wooded river-banks." 



484. Pitang-us parvus. 



Little Yellow-billed Flycatcher. 



Pitangus parvus Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. Ill, 181, 1869 (Marabitanas) ; 

 .Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 296 (Camacusa, Merume Mts.) ; Sclater, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 179, 1888 (Meraine Mts., Camacusa. Cari- 

 mang River) ; Braboiu-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 294, no. 2997, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head and sides of the face black, with a 

 more or less concealed ])atcli of bright yellow on the middle of the 

 crown ; base of forehead and a broad streak over each eye which 

 meets on the nape white ; lores and feathers in front of the eye 

 black and bristly in texture ; back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green ; upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and flight-quills blackish brown, the outer webs of the innermost 

 secondaries fringed with sulphur-yellow and the inner webs of all 

 the quills margined with l^e same colour, much more hroadly on 

 the secondaries ; tail blackish brown with very slight pale edgings 

 to the feathers ; chin whitish ; throat and remainder of the under 

 surface bright yellow including the breast, abdomen, under tail- 

 coverts, axillaries. and under winj^-coverts. It mav be observed 



