BIRDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. 



Genus CYHBILAIMITS Gray, 

 Cymbilaimus Gray, List of Gen. p. 36, 1840. Type C lineatus (Leach). 



Fig. 4. — Cymhilaimus lineatus. 



This genus is distinguished by the banded plumage, which 

 occurs in both male and female, the male having white bands and 

 the crown of the head black, while the female has pale buff bands, 

 which are much wider on the under surface, and the crown of the 

 "head chestnut. The bill is sharply hooked on tlie upper mandible 

 and the under mandible is toothed. The wing is rounded, the 

 fourth and fifth primary-quills longest and the third about equal 

 to the sixth. The tail is also rounded and much graduated, the 

 outer feathers on each side only slightly more than half the 

 length of the middle ones, 



352. Cymbilaimus lineatus. 



Banded Bush-Shrike. 



Lanius lineatus Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 20, pi. 6, 1814 (Berhice). 

 Cymbilanius lineatus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 423 (Bartica Grove, Cama- 



cusa) ; Solater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 178, 1890 (British 



Guiana). 

 Cymhilaimus lineatus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 186, 



no. 1854, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above black, narrowlv banded with 

 white, the black interspaces being very much wider than the white 

 cross-bands ; crown of head black, minutely barred with white ; 

 entire . under surface regularly barred with black and white ; 

 primary and secondary quills not barred on the inner webs, but 

 slightly toothed on the edges. 



Total length 177 mm., culmen 32, wing 82, tail 72, tarsus 25, 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Bonasika River, 1911, 



Adult female . Differs from adult male in having the crown of 

 the head chestnut, the remainder of upper parts umber-brown 



