SCLERDRUS. — SYNALLATCIS. 93 



Adult male. General colour above and below rust-brown tinged 

 with olive, including the head, back, and wings on the upper parts 

 and the abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts on the 

 under surface; inner webs of flight-quills brown with pale inner 

 edges ; upper tail-coverts dark chestnut in contrast with the back ; 

 tail dark brown, or blackish, with obsolete bars ; head somewhat 

 darker than the back, and the feathers being short and rounded 

 imparts a more or less scalloped appearance ; sides of the face, 

 throat, and breast bright ferruginous, rather darker on the last ; 

 under wing-coverts pale rufous ; under surface of quills pale 

 brown ; lower aspect of tail blackish. 



Total length 118 mm., exposed culmen 26, wing 80, tail 58, 

 tarsus 22. 



The type from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Ituribisi River in February 1907. 



In the British Museum there is a male specimen of this bird, 

 which was collected at Ourumee on the 3rd of October, 1890, by 

 the late Henry Whitely and is identical with the type described. 

 . Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River (McConnell collection) ; 

 Ourumee [Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard). 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Family SYNALLAXIDJ5. 



This family consists of about twenty-five genera and about two 

 hundred and sixteen species. Five of the genera and about 

 twelve of the species are represented in British Guiana. 



Genus STNALLAXIS Vieill. 



Synallaxis Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxii. p. 309, 1819. Type 

 S. rvficapilla Vieill. 



Fig. 43. — Synallaxis ruficapilla. 



