HYLOPEZUS. * 85 



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Orallaria macularia Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 430 (Bartioa Grove, Cama- 

 cusa, Merume Mts., Atapurow Eiver) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus- 

 XV. p. 324, 1890 (Bartica Grove, Merume Mts., Camacusa, Atapa- 

 row River) ; Bratoui-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 219, no. 2209, 

 1912. 



Sylopezus macularia macconnelli Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 xxxviii. p. 86, July 25, 1918. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown including the 

 back, wings, and tail ; upper wing-coverts tipped with rufous ; 

 outer edge o£ bastard-wing, outer margin o£ outer primary, and 

 the basal portion of the quills Tufous, inner portion of bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and inner webs of quills dark brown ; 

 crown of head and nape slate-grey ; base of forehead with 

 minute dark tips to the feathers ; a ring of short rufous feathers 

 encircling the eye ; ear-coverts brown with pale streaks ; a dark 

 streak from the gape across the face to below the ear-coverts, 

 another one on the sides of the chin enclosing a white line 

 between, them ; chin, throat, breast,/ and middle of abdomen 

 white, the feathers margined with black ; sides of body and 

 under tail-coverts fulvous ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 

 quill-lining at the base rufous, remainder of the quill below 

 brown. 



Total length 132 mm., exposed culmen 20, wing 88, tail 27, 

 tarsus 34. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Ituribisi River in August 1909. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. " Iris dark brown ; 

 legs, toes, and claws purplish flesh-colour " (^H. Whitely) . 

 Wing 79 mm. 



Sreeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



iVerf. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggis. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 River, Makauria River,' Mazaruni River [McConnell collection) ; 

 Merume Mountains, Kamarang River, Kamakusa, Bartica 

 {Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne {Brit. Mus.), East Peru. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (lleis. Guian. iii. p. 685) that he 

 met with this bird in the dense woods on the Pomeroon River, 

 where it lives chiefly on the ground. Its nidification was 

 unknown to him. Its food appeared to consist of insects only. 



