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flight-quills black, the inner webs of the latter white on the basal 

 portion ; tail also black with ash-grey fringes to the feathers ; 

 sides of the face and sides of the body ash-grey like the back ; 

 chin, throat, breast, middle of abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts white, grey on the margin of the 

 wing, and greater series ; inner edges of flight-quills below white, 

 the remainder hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail grey, dark brown, 

 or blackish on the middle of the feathers. 



Total length 86 mm., exposed culmen 7, wing 48, tail 32, 

 tarsus 12. 



The male described was collected at the Great Falls on the 

 Deinerara River in August 1912. 



Adult female. General colour olive, including the top of the 

 head, back, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; upper tail- 

 coverts inclining to rust-colour ; median and greater upper wing- 

 coverts dark brown narrowly edged with buff ; primary-coverts 

 and flight-quills dark hair-brown, some of the inner secondaries 

 white at the base on the inner webs ; tail also dark hair-brown ; 

 under surface ochreous buff, including the throat, breast, sides of 

 body, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts silky white ; under surface of quills and lower aspect of 

 tail greyish brown. Wing 48 mm. 



The female is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the description is taken from a specimen in the British Museum, 

 collected by the late Henry Wbitely at Bartica, February 1880, 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding -season. February (Beehe}. 

 Nest. In low bushes {Beehe). 



Eggs. " From two to three in number. Whitish, thickly spotted 

 with brown and lilac, and more or less covered with fine irregular 

 lines of black " (Beehe). 



Range in Britis/i Guiana. Great Falls Demerara River 

 (McConnell collectinii) ; Bartica ( Tr/n"<^/t/) ; Georgetown (^Qnelc/i, 

 lieehe). 



Extraliniital Range. Surinam (Penard), North Brazil, Colombia, 

 East Ecuador, Peru. 



Habits. Schombnrgk states fReis. Guian. iii. p. G79) that he 

 only obtained a single specimen of this species and that was near 

 the coast, in the vicinity of C'umaka. 



