FOKMICAEIUS. — CHAM^ZA. 



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Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Cayenne {British 

 Museum) . 



Habits. Schomburgk, on whose collection this species was 

 founded, remarks (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 686) that he only met with 

 it in the vicinity o£ the Roraima Mountains at an altitude o£ 

 4000 feet, where it frequents the lower bush. The " Arekunas " 

 call it Pairika. 



Genus CHAMffiZA Vig. 



Chameeza Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 395, 1825. Type hrevieauda 

 (Vieill.). 



Fig. 36. — OTiamwza hrevieauda. 



The species on which this genus was founded is more or less 

 Thrush-like in appearance. The bill is small in proportion to the 

 general size o£ the bird. The wing is almost square, the inner 

 secondaries being only about 10 mm. shorter than the longest 

 primaries, the thirds fourth, and fifth primaries longest and equal, 

 the second shorter than the sixth but_ longer ^;han the seventh. 



