CACicrs. 555 



Citcicvs eel a Bra bourne Si C'hul)l), B. S. Amer. i. p. 433, no. 4454f 



1912. 

 C'(ic/ci/s cela eel a Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 137, 



1917 (Bartiea), 



Adult male. General colour, both on the upper and under 

 surface, olossy black. The lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 basal two-thirds of the tail, and a [)atcli on the upper wiuo-coverts 

 blight yellow. 



Total lengtli 270 mm., culmen 37, wing 158, tail 103, tarsus 30, 

 middle toe and claw 80. 



The male descril)ed was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 October 1908. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, and diflfers only in its 

 smaller size. 



Total length 220 mm., culmen 30, wing 130, tail 89, tarsus 27, 

 middle toe and claw 27. 



The specimen described a])ove was collected in the Upper 

 Takutu Mountains. 



Breeding-season. April and May (ScJiomhiin/k). 



JS^est. See Schoniburgk, Brown, Lloyd Price, infra, p. 556. 



J^ays. See Lloyd Price, infra., p. 556. 



llanye in British Guiana. U[)per Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 ]{iver, Mazaruni River {.UrConnell collection) ; Corentyne River 

 Hroicn) \ Tauraculi district, Georgetown [Qnelch) ; Bartiea 

 ( Whitehj). 



Kxtralimitcd Ran<je. South America from Colombia and Trinidad 

 to Bolivia and Southern Brazil. 



Hahits. In referring to this bird Schoniburgk writes (Reis. 

 Guian. i. p. 90) : — Nothing claimed my attention so much as a 

 colony of this s[)ecies which had taken possession of an unusally 

 large Boinhax (/lobosnni close to my windows, I never before 

 had heard such a babel among birds, whose number on this 

 enormous tree wero busy repairing and building tlieir ])urse- 

 sha[)ed nests. The capability of this bird to imitate the voice 

 and cry of every living quadruped or bird near, has procured 

 for it the name of " Mocking-liird." It is impossible to imagine 

 a more restless and noisy Warbler. If the animals and other 

 Ijirds are (jiiiet it will immeiliatoly commence its own somewhat 

 pleasant song. Should a Toucan suiidenly emit its deep sounding 

 note this ijird, without a moment's h<"<itati()ii, imitates it. Should 



