116 BIRDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. 



423. Dendrocincla fuliginosa. 



Vieillot's Wood-hewer. 



Dendroeopus fidiginosus Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 117, 1818 



(Cayenne). 

 Dendrocincla fumigata Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 (Bartica Grove, 



Camacusa, Eoraima 3500 ft.). 

 Dendrocincla fuliginosa Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 165, 1890 



(Eoraima, Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 



Amer. i. p. 248, no. 2520, 1912. 



Adult male. Head, back, upper -wing-coverts', breast, abdomen, 

 and sides of the body dusky olive-brown ; primary and secondary 

 quills rufous, vfith dark shaft-lines and buff edges to the inner 

 webs, the six outer primaries brown at the tips ; upper and under 

 tail-coverts rufous ; tail-feathers rufous with black shaft-lines ; 

 a short line of buff behind the eye ; the short feathers on the 

 lores and in front of the eye whitish at the base with dark tips ; 

 sides of the face and ear-coverts dusky brown with pale shaft- 

 lines ; chin and throat pale grey, becoming brown with pale 

 narrow shaft-lines on the fore-neck ; under wing-coverts and 

 greater part of the quill-lining cinnamon-rufous, tips of primary- 

 quills below brown ; lower aspect of tail pale rufous including 

 the shafts of the feathers. 



Total length 226 mm., exposed culmen 29, wing 110, tail 95, 

 tarsus 30. 



The male described was collected on the Demerara River. 



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

 Wing 105 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Supenaam River, Mazaruni River, 

 Demerara River (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Kama- 

 kusa, Bartica {Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), Cayenne ( Vieillot). 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



424. Dendrocincla merula. 



Red-vented Wood-hewer. 



Dendroeolaptes merula Licht. Abh. Ak. Berl. 1820, p. 208 (Cayenne). 

 Dendrocincla merula Salvin, Ibis(, 1885, p. 421 (Bai-tica Grove) ; 



