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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Another example more advanced in age has the hrioht red 

 upper tail-coverts and the approach of dark feathers ou the back 

 and upper wing-coverts. 



The two specimens mentioned above were collected on the 

 Mazarnni River — one by Mr. McConuell himself daring his ex- 

 pedition to Mount Roraima in 1898. 



J^reedinp-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



litest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Egqs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Mazaruni River, 

 Tiger Creek, Arwye River, Great Falls Demerara River, Arawai 

 Jiiver (McConnellcollectio7i); Puruui River {Brown); Kamakusa, 

 Bartica (WJuteh^). 



E.dralimital Range. North Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 685) that this 

 gorgeous bird is seen throughout the year in the woods of the 

 whole of British Guiana ; and yet he was unable to learn anything 

 about its nidification. It lives solitary or in pairs in the woods 

 and is rather fond of Ficus-iveQ?>. The female is larger than the 

 male, but she has not the brilliant colours by which he is dis- 

 tinguished. The " ]\Iacusis " call it Ischararia, the " Arekuuas" 

 Ischaranare, and the settlers Firebird. 



Genus RUPICOLA Briss. 

 Si'picola Brisson, Om. iv. p. 437, 1760. Type S. rujpicoJa (Linn.). 



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Fig. 11'5. — To i\xo\\ wing formula. 

 This genus differs from the allied genera by the large and 



