132 BIRDS or BRITISH GUIANA. 



Brit. Mus. XV. p. 172, 1890 (Carimang Eiver) ; Brabourne & Chubb, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 257, no. 2617, 1917. 



Adult. Back and upper wing-coverts olive-brown with dark 

 brown bars to tbe feathers; upper tail-coverts, primary and 

 secondary quills, and tail rufous-chestnut with a few dark edgings 

 to the upper tail-coverts ; primary-quills brown on the apical 

 portion ; crown of head and nape rather darker than the back, 

 with pale narrow shaft-lines and black edgings to the feathers ; 

 sides of face buff with brown edgings to the feathers ; throat 

 pale fulvous with dark brown dotted edgings to the feathers ; 

 breast olive-brown with twin black spots on the feathers ; remain- 

 der of under surface fulvous regularly barred with dark brown, 

 somewhat brighter on the under wing-coverts ; quill-lining 

 cinnamon-rufous, becoming darker towards the tips of the quills ; 

 lower aspect of tail dull rufous. 



Total length 290 mm., exposed culmen 33, wing ,139, tail 122/ 

 tarsus 29. 



The bird described was collected by Mr. McConncll, exact 

 locality in British Gruiana unknown. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



West. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in JBritish Guiana. Anarica Hixer (^McConnell collection) •, 

 Kamakusa, Kamarang River (Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



435. Dendrocolaptes certMa. 



Buffon's Barred Wood-hewbe. 



Picus certhia Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 38, 1783 (Cayenne). 

 Primnocopus undulatus Cab. in Schomb. E,eis. Guian. iii. p. 689, 1848. 

 Dendrocolaptes certhia Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 421 (Bartica Grove, 



Merume Mts., Camaeusa, Eoi-aima 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. XV. p. 173, 1890 (Eoraima, Camaeusa, Bartica Grove) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 257, no. 2621, 1912. 



" Tarikua " (^Scliomhurgk). 



Adult. Upper back and upper wi iig-coverts olive-brown barred 

 with dark brown which is more or less concentric on the upper 

 wing-coverts, which have pale central markings ; upper tail- 

 ooverts, primary and secondary quills, and tail rufo as-chestnut, 

 with the apical portion of the primary-quills brown, and the 



