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that tlie shafts of some of the feathers on the throat are extended 

 iuto black hair-like tips. Quills below brown with j-ellowish-white 

 inner edgings : lower aspect of tail pale brown. 



Total length 150 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 83, tail 67, 

 tarsus 16. 



The male described was collected on the Supenaam River in 

 1910. 



Aihdt female. Similar to the adult male but rather smaller. 

 Wing 77 mm. 



The immature bird differs from the adult in having whitish 

 margins to the feathers on the upper parts. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River 

 (}[cConnell collection) ; Merume Mountains, Kamarang River, 

 Kamakusa [Wliitelij). 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne, Northern Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus MYIODYNASTES Bonap. 



Myiody Hastes Bonaparte. Comp. Rend. Paris, xxxviii. p. 6G7, 1S54. 

 Type 21. mc.culaUis (P. L. S. Midi.). 



Fig. 84. — Myiodfjnaites maculatus. 

 The type of this genus Las the bill depressed, the width at the 



