548 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Gniana. 



J^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from Britisli Guiana. 



Range in British Gniana. Mount Roraima, Ituribisi River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Ahary River, Berl)ice River (McConnell 

 collection) ; Countyn River (i;yt Tliurm ) ; Mount Roraima, Merume 

 Mountains (WhiteJy). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam {Peiiard), Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Family ICTERID.^. 



This family, which is confined to the Xew World only, is 

 distributed throughout its area ; f lom Canada in the north 

 through the United States to Central America, and the West 

 India Islands, thence to South America extending to the Straits 

 of Magellan. When Brabourne & Chubb published their ' List of 

 Birds of South America' in 1912, twenty-six genera and ninety- 

 eight species were represented. Thirteen of the genera and 

 twenty of the species are known to occur in British Guiana. 



Genus OSTINOPS Cab. 



Ostinnps Cabanis, Mus. Heiu. i. p. 187, 1851. Tvpe O. decumanus 

 CPall.j. 



Fig. 200. — Ostinops decumanus. 



The species that comprise this genus are birds of large size and 

 are easily distinguished by the long and sharply pointed bill with 



