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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Ficus species are ripe it feeds on the fruit. In nearly all the 

 species of this famil}'' the female has a sober and modest plumage. 

 The nest is built in a tall bush, being a light structure, 

 composed of mosses and plant-wool, and contains two eggs. 

 The " Macusis " call it Warikuiyeh and the " Warraus " call it 

 Ponoromih. 



Genus CORAPIPO Bouap. 



Corapipo Bonaparte, Anteneo Italiano, vol. 2, No. 11, p. 316, Aug. 1854 

 (Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum, p. 6, 1854). Type C.gut- 

 turalis (Linn.). 



Fig. 105. — To show the narrow primary-quills. 



The species on which this genus was based is somewhat small in 

 size. The bill has scarcely any hook at the tip of the upper 

 mandible, and the width at the base is very slightly less than the 

 length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the third 

 primary longest, the second and fourth about equal, and the first 

 intermediate in length between the fifth and sixth. The tail is 

 square at the tip and nearly half the length of the wing. The 

 tarsus is about three-fifths the length of the tail, and the hind toe 

 and claw are about equal in length to the outer toe and claw. 

 Coloration : male and female entirely different. 



