TROGLODYTES. 3C1 



the upper siirfaco. The clistnl)ntion of tlie colour is much the 

 same, but much more minute. Throat and abdomen dull white. 

 Flanks and under tail-coverts oranoe-buff. 



Breediiia-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



JS^est. "('onsistsof drv sticks and placed under the rafters of 

 inhabited houses " (//. Lloj/d Price); "they build their little nests 

 in all sorts of places " (./. J. Quelch). 



E<j<js. "Brownish-white, closed j speckled with red'^ (A/. Lhv/d 

 Price). 



Range in Britisli Gniana. Upper Takutu Mountains [McConnsU 

 collection). 



Kxtralimital Panr/e. Venezuela. 



IJahits. Mr. H. Lloyd Price (Timehri (2) v. p. 66), writing on 

 the nests and eggs of some common Giiiana birds, remarks : — " A 

 smnll Avren of a brownish-red colour (^Troglodytes fnrvus) is 

 frequently to be seen, especially near inhabited houses, under the 

 rafters of which it builds a nest of dry sticks; the eggs are 

 brownish-white, closely speckled with red. This bird has a 

 pleasant warble very uncommon aTuongst the coloni.d birds." 



Mr. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 74) observed this species in 

 Georgetown, and remarks : — " Throughout the to\vn, in the gardens 

 and in the naileries of the houses, the little warblino: wrens 

 {Troglodijtes furviis) are to be heard at all times of the year and 

 at all hours of the day. They are fearless little things, jumping 

 about the window-sills, peering into nooks and crannies careless 

 of the presence of man, and enlivening and cheering with their 

 melodious warblings. They build their little nests in all sorts of 

 ])hices — in the galleries, in the bed-rooms, under the house, along 

 ledges, under the eaves, within empty flower-pots, inside old })ipes, 

 and in other odd situations, often approached by apertures to be 

 passed only by small ol)jects like themselves. 



" Unfortunately, as a lace, they are subjected to the ])arasitic 

 nesting habits of the Icterine Iazy-l)irds {Moloflirus atro-niten.s), 

 which are often to be seen spying out tlie homes of the wrens ; 

 and the little creatures, in finding out places inaccessible to the 

 larger bodied lazy-birds, often seem to be all alive to the risks of 

 careless building. When the eggs of the parasite are once 

 deposited, the destruction of the brood of wrens is secured, the 

 lazy-birds hatching sooner than {\u- young wrens and causing 

 their displacement. 



