328 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



tail-coverts, and upper wintr-coverts ; the bases of the featliers 

 on the back being -white are sometimes exposed, Avhich gives a 

 spotted or streaked ap]tearance ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and fliglit-quills dark brown, the secondaries steel-blue on the 

 outer webs ; tail dark brown with a white subapical mark on the 

 inner webs of the lateral feathers; sides of face and sides of neck 

 steel-blue; chin and throat pale chestnut; breast and abdomen 

 white washed with fawn-colour; under tail-coverts, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts pale fawn-colour ; under surface of flight- 

 quills and tail-feathers blackish brown, marked with white on tne 

 inner webs of the latter near the tips. 



Total length 149 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 111 ; tail — 

 middle feathers 40, outer feathers 08 ; tarsus 12. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female in colour and measiu'e- 

 ments. 



Breedincj-seaRon. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



I^ags. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Gitiana. Abary River {McCoiyneU coUedioii) ; 

 Mount Roraima and Bartica {\yiiitely) ; Aremu River and Abary 

 Savannas {Beebe). 



Extralimital Bange. South America generally in winter, 

 Central and North America to North Euro^ie and Asia south to 

 Burma. 



Habits. According to Quelch (Timehri (2) x. p. 262) this 

 species is a winter migrant to British Guiana. 



