3fi4 BIRDS OF BRITIJ^H GUIANA. 



a white supraloral streak which is continued over the eye and 

 backward along the sides of the cro.vn on to the sides of the neck ; 

 sides of the face also Idack with white shaft-lines to the feathers 

 which terminate in a i)ear-.sha[)ed mark ; back, win;j;s5 <ind tail 

 chestnut, outer webs of flight-quills and tail-feathers barred with 

 black : bastard-wing and outer edcre of wing black marked with 

 white; inner webs of fliglit-quills blackish, paler on the inner 

 edges ; throat and middle of breast white becoming slate-grey on 

 the sides of the latter; flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining dark brown. 



Total length 93 mm., exposed culmcn 13, wing oG, tail 26, 

 tarsus 22. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 at Bartica Grove. 



Adult female. Similar to ttie adult male. Wing 54 mm. 



Immature male. Ditt"ei-s from the adult in having the top of the 

 heail like the back and the white on the under surface more 

 restricted. 



The young male was collected on the Makauria River in . 

 August 1910. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Uange in British Guiana. Tturibisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Makauria River, Tiger Creek, Arawai 

 River (^M<:Connell) ; Merume Mountains, Kamakusa i^W lately). 



Kxtralimital Range. Colombia. 



Bal'ifs. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. G73) 

 the haf)it5 and mo le of life and the localities frequented by this 

 bird are similar to those of Leucolepis arada, p. 3G5. 



