520 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Range in BritisJt Guiana. Tturibisi River, IMazaruni River. 



Demerara River (McComiell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Meiume 



Mountains, Kainakusa, Bartica ( Whitely); Georgetown (Brown). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam, North Brazil, Venezuela, East 



Ecuador, North-east Peru. 



Hahits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. j). 668) that this 

 species is found throughout the colony, and that he observed it to 

 be rather common in the light -woods near the coast and in the 

 plantations; in the latter place it was one of the commonest birds. 

 It roams about in pairs. The " Macusis '' call it Ipitikaha aud 

 the " Warraus " Porokeda. 



This note has been copied from Mr. H. Lloyd Price (Timehri 



(2) v. p. 63), who, when writing on the nest and eggs of some 



common Guiana Birds, remarks : — "Another species of a reddish 



colour (RhampJioccelus jacapa), builds its nest in low bushes, close 



to the ground, and of much the same materials. The two eggs 



are of a pinkish white, spotted, and blotched with purple- black." 



The following notes are quoted from Mr. J. J. Quelch 



(Timehri (2) v. pp. 79, 80), who observed this species in 



Georgetown : — " Among some of the commonest of the town 



birds, and at the same time one of the most beautiful, is the 



Tanagrine bird, commonly known to colonists as the Cashew 



Sackie {Rhamphocoehis jacapa). The bird is known under various 



common names in different parts of the colony, such as Wasoo, 



Buck-town Sackie, Silver-beak, Red Sackie, etc., while it has 



been referred to by black Creoles as ' white-bill black-bird with 



a wine breast.' It may be taken as a type of the large family of 



Tanagridpe, whose more than three hundred species are entirely 



confined to the New World, and almost entirely to the tropical 



parts, where they form some of the most beautiful natural objects 



to be met with. The members of this familv are distinguished 



from the other singing birds with nine primary-quills by the 



presence of a distinct notch on the upper mandible of the bill, 



whcse form closely approaches that of the true Finches, while in 



many other characters they approach the Sugar-birds already 



described. 



" The Red-breasted Tiinager is to be seen in all j)arts of the 

 town flitting about the trees, on the fruit and seeds of which they 

 almost entirely subsist. Their note is sharp and shrill and by no 



