SALTATOR. SICALIS. 453 



J^^est. ]Made o£ mosses lined with plant-wool and placed in 

 densely foliaged bushes {Schombur</k) . 



J^ggs. Undescribed from British Gniana. 



Range in Britisli Gitiana. Upper Takutvi Mountains, Ituribisi 

 River, Sapenaam River, Bonasiki River, Abary River [McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ('Sc//o»i?>(^?v/Z,-). 



E.vtralinutal Range. Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, North 

 Brazil. 



Habits. Schoniburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 670) that this 

 species, like S. magnus, is distributed throughout the whole of 

 British Guiana, and is usually met with in pairs in ]dantations, 

 outskirts of woods, and in the fields cultivated by the Indians. 

 He found it more numerous, however, near the coast than in the 

 interior. Its nest is made of mosses lined with plant-wool and 

 placed in densely foliaged bushes. The nest is found in Novem- 

 ber. The " Macusis " call it Sikuih. 



Genus SICALIS Boie. 



Sicalis Bole. Isis, 1S2S, p. 324. Type S.f areola (Linn.). 



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 Fig. 171. — Sicalis Jlaveola . 



The species included in this genus are of medium size and the 

 males brightly coloured. The bill is pointed and somewhat stout 

 at the base, where the depth is about equal to the width. The 

 wing is almost square, tlie innermost secondaries being nearly as 

 long as the primaries; the five outer primaries are longest and 

 subequal. The tail is square at the tip and about five-sevenths 

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

 the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female different. 



