GRALLAEICULA. FURNARIUS. 87 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 

 Nest. Unrecofded in British Guiana. 

 Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Kukenam Mountains 

 {WUtely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Family FUB,NARIIDiE. 



This family consists of ten genera and about seventy-three 

 species. Three o£ the genera and five of the species are repre- 

 sented in British Guiana. 



Genus PUENAEIUS Vieill. 



Furnarius Vieillot, Analyse d'une nouv. Omith. element, p. 47, 1819. 

 Type F. rufus (Gmel.). 



Fig. 40. — Vurnarius rufus. 



The members of the present genus are distinguished by having 

 the exposed culmen about equal in length to that of the middle 

 toe and claw. The wing is almost square, the secondaries being 

 only about 5 mm. shorter than the primaries, the third, fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth primaries longest and subeqnal, the second about 

 equal to the seventh. The tail is slightly rounded and rather 

 more than half the length of the wing, and the tarsus about the 

 same length as the tail. Coloration : male and female similar, 



404. Furnarius leucopus leucopus. 



White-eyebeowed Ovbn-bikd. 



Furnarius leucopus Swains. Anim. in Menag. p. 325, 1838 (Guiana) ; 

 Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 688, 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 418; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 13, 1890 (British 

 Guiana) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 222, no. 2239, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above cinnamon-rufous, including 



