212 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



488. Onycliorliynchus coronatus. 

 Royal Great-Crest. 



Musciea2m coronata P. L. S. Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 168, 1776 



(Cayenne). 

 Muscivora re(pa Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 192, 1884 (Camacusa); 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 297 (Camacusa). 

 Onychorhynchns coronatus (P. L. 8. Mlill.) Braboume & Chubb, B. 



S. Arner. i. p. 295. no. 3008, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of bead, back, side.s of face, and sides of 

 breast dark olive-brown ; darker on tbe upper wing-coverts, which 

 have minute whitish spots at the ti})S ; flight-quills olive-brown 

 on the outer webs, dark brown on the inner ones, which are 

 margined with yellowish buff ; a narrow band across the rump 

 cinnamon-buff ; upper tail-coverts rufous-buff with dark markings 

 towards the tips ; tail chestnut ; a fan-shaped crest on the fore 

 part of the head deep red witii steel-blue tips to the feathers ; 

 throat whitish with a tinge of lemon-yellow ; breast, abdomen, 

 axillaries, and under wing-coverts ochreous-buff barred with olive- 

 brown on the breast and sides of the abdomen ; under tail-coverts 

 pale fawn-colour ; under surface of flight-quills brown edged with 

 yellowish buff ; lower aspect of tail rufous-brown. 



Total length 141 mm., exposed culmen 24, wing 73, tail 59, 

 tarsus 14. 



The specimen from which the above description is taken was col- 

 lected by Mr. McConnell on the Cotinga River in November 1898. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but differs in having 

 the crest orange with steel-blue tips instead of deep red. "Wing 

 73 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Isest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana, 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Cotinga River, 

 Tiger Creek {McConnell collection); Kamakusa {Whitehj). 



Ejctralimital Range. Northern Brazil, Eastern Peru. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



