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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Ranrie in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Lower Mazaruni River, Bartica, Anarica River, Berbice River 

 (il/c Connell collection) ; Kamakusa, Roraima ( Whitely) . 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne (Sclater), North Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Family COTINGID^. 



This family, which consists of many peculiar forms, is distributed 

 in Central America, some of the West India Islands, and the 

 tropical portion of South America. When Brabourne and Chubb 

 published their ' List of the Birds of South America ' it was 

 represented by twenty-nine genera and one hundred and twenty- 

 two species ; twenty of the genera and thirty-two of the species 

 occur in British Guiana. 



Genus TITYRA Vieill. 

 Tityra Vieillot, Anal. nouv. Orn. p. 39, 1816. T3'pe T. cayana (Linn.). 



Fig. 107. — To show the ininiatui'e second primary. 



This genus is easily distinguished by the somewhat stout bill 

 with its rounded and exposed nostrils and sharply hooked upper 

 mandible, also by the bare space round the eye and almost.entire 

 absence of rictal bristles. The wing is rounded, the third and 

 fourth primaries longest and equal, the first about equal in length 

 to the fifth and the second very short and sharply attenuated. 

 The tail is almost square at the tip and rather more than half the 

 length of the wing. The tarsus is about equal in length to that 



