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399. Grallaria varia. 

 Royal Ant-Thrush. 



Formicariiis varius Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 44, 1783 (Cayenne). 



Qrallaria varia Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 430 (Camaousa) ; Sclater, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 315, 1890 (Takutu Eiver, Quonga River, 

 Camacusa) ; Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 217, no. 2182, 

 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface fulvous-brown 

 ■with black edges to the feathers, including the fore part of the 

 heiid and back; nape and hind-neck grey with black margins to 

 the feathers; upper wing-coverts and outer aspect of flight-quills 

 paler than the back and inclining to cinnamon-rufous with paler 

 tips to the median and greater coverts, but darker on the primary- 

 coverts; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown broadly margined 

 with pale ferruginous on the basal portion; tail cinnamon-rnfous; 

 forehead, lores, and cheeks huffy-white ; ear-coverts, sides of 

 neck, throat, and fore-neck chestnut-brown with pale shaft-streaks 

 to the feathers, which widen out and become white on the middle 

 of the lower throat; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 pale ferruginous, darker and inclining to ochreous on the sides of 

 the body ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills below 

 pale cinnamon-rufous ; remainder of the quill-lining pale brown ; 

 lower aspect of tail cinnamon-brown. 



Total length 166 mm., exposed culmen 21, depth of bill 10, 

 wing 110, tail 38, tarsus 48. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but everywhere paler 

 both above and below. Wing 112 mm. 



Nestling. Cinnamon-rufous on the upper surface, brighter 

 rufous on the tips of the greater upper wing-coverts and tips of 

 flight-quills ; under parts darker and inclining to chocolate-brown 

 on the fore-neck ; throat much paler cinnamon and almost naked. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection and 

 the male and female described are in the British Museum — Salvin- 

 Godman collection, and were collected by the late Henry Whitely 

 at Kamakusa, and the nestling at Quonga, Potaro River. 



Breeding -seascm. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiiuia. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 

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