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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Suponaam River, 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Makauria River (McConnell collection') ; 

 Bartica, Kamakuga (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne ( Vieilloi), Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus TARABA Less. 

 Taraha Lesson, Traite d'Ornith. p. 375, 1831. Type T. major (Vieill.). 



Fig. 7. — Taraha major. 



This genus is characterized chiefly by the short and incon- 

 spicuous crest. A dorsal white patch. The bill somewhat long 

 and compressed, the depth about half the length o£ the exposed 

 culmen. Wing rounded, the fourth primary longest, the third 

 about equal to the seventh. Tail also rounded and graduated, 

 the two middle feathers longest and nearly equal in length to 

 that of the wing. Coloration : the male is black above and the 

 female rufous, but both are white on the under surface. 



354. Taraba semifasoiata. 

 Para Bush-Shrike. 



TJiamnophilus semifasciatus Cab. J. f. 0. 1872, p. 234 (Para) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 187, no. 1866, 1912. 

 TJiamnophilus major (nee Vieill.) Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. 



p. 687, 1848; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 423; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mtis. XV. p. 186 (part), 1890 (Takutu Riv^r, Quonga). 



Adult male. General colour above black with white bases to the 

 feathers of the upper back and grey bases to those of the lower back; 

 upper wing-coverts edged with white at the tips; primary and 

 secondary quills hlackish with white edges to inner wehs; tail 



