21}(') BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



from boiu'li to bough and tree to tree, that Paulie, who was 

 trvintr to shoot them, started five, but only succeeded in ob- 

 tainino- one specimen. He found a dancing place of these birds 

 in a thicket, the ground being beaten down quite smooth by their 

 feet ; and on visiting it early in the morning with Ben, the two 

 together succeeded in shooting two cocks and a hen bird. They 

 told me that there w^ere numbers around the dancing place, and 

 that the two cocks they shot were strutting about with their 

 feathers distended^ showing themselves off before the rest." 



Genus EUCHLORNIS de Fil. 



Euchlornia tie Filip])i, Mas. Mediol. An. Vert. cl. ii. }>. 31, 1S4-7. Type 

 Jl. rit'Jf'tri (lioiss.). 



Fig. IIG. — Eucliloniis rirjferi. 



In this genus the bill is depressed at the base, sharph' hooked 

 at the tip, and the posterior portion of the nostrils feathered. The 

 wing is rounded, the fourth and fifth primaries longest and sub- 

 (H|ual, the third about equal to the sixth and the second about 

 ('([ual to the seventh. The tail is square at the tip and about three- 

 fourths the length of the wing. The tarsus is about twice the length 

 of the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female ditlerent. 



540. Euchlornis wMtelyi. 

 Whitely's Chatterer. 



Pipreola whiteh/i Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 449 (llorainia, 

 6000 ft.); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 304, 1886, p. o02, pi. xii. (Twek- 

 quey Mt., 3000 ft.). 



Eucldornis wliitelyi Erabom-ne & Chvibb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 322, no. 3290, 

 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and sides of face dark slate- 

 grey ; back, sca[)nlars, and upper tail-coverts olive-green ; outer 



