40 



BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Eggs, Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Gruiana. Mount Eoraima, Twek-quaj-", 

 Kamarang River (Whitely). 

 Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus DRYMOPHILA Such. 



BrymopMla Such, Zool. Joui-n. i. p. 559, 1824. Type D. 

 (Licht., nee Mull.). 



■ea 





Fig. 19. — Drymophila grisea. 



The members o£ this genus have slender bills, short wings, and 

 long tails. The exposed culmen is about three-fourths the length 

 of the tarsus, the wing about one-tenth longer than the tail, and 

 the tarsus nearly half the length of the tail. This genus strongly 

 resembles il/^rmopa^'js of Ridgway. Coloration: male and female 

 different. 



374, Drymopliila grisea. 



Cayenne Ant- Ween. 



Turdus griseus Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 39, 1783 (Cayenne). 

 Formicivora grisea Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 687, 1848 ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 426 (Merume Mts.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. XT. p. 249, 1890 (Quonga) ; Biaboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. 



i. p. 200, no. 2009, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper tail- 

 coverts dusky greyish brown with dark slate-grey bases to the 

 feathers ; upper wing-coverts black with white tips to the feathers, 

 including the bastard-wing and primary-coverts ; primary and 



