BIRDS OF BBITISH GDIANA. 



tbe entire back, wings, and tail, somewhat darker and inclining to 

 chestnut on the upper wing-coverts; bastarct-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and primary-quills dark brown, the outer webs and some 

 o£ the tips of the last more or less marked with rufous ; outer 

 edge of wing bufFy-white, the inner webs pale rufous on the basal 

 portion, decreasing in extent on the outer quills and becomes a 

 spot only on the third primary ; crown of head earth-brown, the 

 forehead and lores rather paler ; a whitish line on the sides of the 

 crown behind the eye ; chin and throat white ; sides of the face 

 and fore-neck pale cinnamon-rufous, somewhat paler on the 

 breast, abdomen, sides of the body, lower flanks, and thiglis ; 

 middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white, the 

 latter having dark bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts 

 similar to the upper surface, except those at the base of tlie outer 

 primary which are whitish ; quills dark brown below with a pale 

 rufous patch ; lower aspect of tail similar to that above. 



Total length 168 mm., exposed culmen 20, wing 88, tail 51, 

 tarsus 29, middle toe and claw 19. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male but slightly smaller. 

 Wing 83 mm. 



The birds described were collected in the Upper, Tiikutu 

 Mountains. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in Briiish Gruiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana, 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Upper 

 Takutu River, Ireng River (McConnell collection) ; Demerara 

 (Brown). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), North-west Brazil: 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 688) that he 

 first met with this bird in the neighbourhood of the Pirara River, 

 where it enlivens the bush near the banks. It is never still and 

 all the time uttering its piercing loud note, more persistently 

 at dawn and sunset. It is usually met with in pairs. The 

 " Macusis " call it Nomaiko. 



