120 BIRDS OF BBITIBH GUIANA. 



426. Dendrocinclopa longicauda guianensis. 



Guiana Long-tailed Creeper. 



Dendrocincla longicauda (nee Pelz.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p, 421 (Bai'fcica 



Grove, Merume Mts.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 16o, 1890 



(Merume Mts., Bartica Grove). 

 Deconychura longicauda Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. ,p. 250, 



no. 2534 (part), 1912. 

 Dendrocincla longicauda guianensis Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



xxiix. p. 61, 1919. 



Adult. Crown of head and sides of face rufous-brown with 

 pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; mantle and back uniform 

 rufous-brown ; flight-q aills and tail chestnut-rufous with brown . 

 tips to the primary-quills on the inner webs ; throat fulvous ; 

 fore-neck, breast, abdomen, and sides of body duskj' brown, with 

 pale ferruginous shaft-lines to the feathers on the fore-neck; 

 under tail-coverts inclining to rufous ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts cinnamon-rufous ; under surface of quills dark brown 

 with rufous inner edgings. 



Total length 197 mm., exposed culmen 20, wing 99, tail 104, 

 tarsus 23. 



The typs, which is in the British Museum, was collected at 

 Bartica on the 20th of December, 1880, hy Henry Whitely — 

 Salvin-Godman collection, 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Kggs. Undescribed. 



J^ange confined to British Guiana. Merume Mountains, Bartica 

 (Wldt'elg). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus XIPHORHYNCHUS Swains. 



XiphorliyncJius Swainson, Phil. Mag. i. p. 440, 1827. Type X. jlavi- 

 gaster Swains. 



The species on which this genus was founded has a somewhat 

 long and compressed bill. The wing is rounded, the third and 

 fourth primaries longest and equal, the second about equal to the 

 sixth, and the first about equal in length to the secondaries. The 

 tail is rounded and graduated, the two middle feathers slightly 

 longest. Tarsus about two-thirds the length of the exposed 

 culmen. Coloration : male and female ^milar. 



